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General Category => Trump Legal Investigations => Topic started by: mountaineer on February 09, 2023, 07:37:25 pm
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Published February 9, 2023 12:00pm EST
Top Biden admin official's husband is CEO of, has $25 million stake in green energy financing firm
Johns' family ties to a massive financial stake in a green energy firm 'could present an issue,' ethics expert tells Fox News Digital
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE: Senior Department of Energy (DOE) official Wahleah Johns' spouse is the top executive and co-founder of a green energy firm that specializes in financing solar projects.
Johns — who was selected to lead the DOE's Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs in January 2021 — is married to Billy Parish, the CEO of the California-based Mosaic, according to Office of Government Ethics filings reviewed by Fox News Digital. Overall, Parish has more than $1 million in vested stock options of Mosaic and an up to $25 million stake in the firm, the filings showed.
Parish co-founded Mosaic more than a decade ago as a crowdfunding startup which has since grown into a solar financing giant that has provided more than $10 billion in funding to residential solar and energy-efficient installations for contractors and consumers. ...
However, the direct family ties between Johns, who has focused much of her efforts in office on boosting solar projects, and such a major solar loan provider could present a conflict of interest depending on Mosaic's relationship with the DOE and whether it has recently obtained funding from the federal agency, an ethics expert said.
"If Mosaic has received funding from the Department of Energy or if they're slated to become a recipient of any funding, like any of the grants or loan guarantees, that could present an issue," Michael Chamberlain, the director of government watchdog group Protect the Public's Trust, told Fox News Digital in an interview. ... FOX News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-biden-admin-officials-husband-ceo-25-million-stake-green-energy-financing-firm)
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Conflicts of interest are a way of life on Wall Street and in Washington, DC.
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Conflicts of interest are a way of life on Wall Street and in Washington, DC.
It would be surprising if there weren't any DOE people with a financial interest in so-called green energy.
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Conflicts of interest are a way of life on Wall Street and in Washington, DC.
DC critters suck.
Back in the day I had to disclose any vendor gift or meal of >$10. And had to register with the state as a stinking lobbyist, even though I worked at a plant. Just because I dealt with and negtotiated with reguatory agencies.
I don't know what the COI guidelines are nowadays, but I am sure they aren't much different.
Some kind of amazing hypocicy isn't it?