Bishop Hill notes:
Remember Jagadish Shukla, the American professor who called for racketeering laws to be used against sceptics? There was considerable interest when it was revealed that Prof Shukla appeared to be working full time for a charity he ran, as well as taking his university salary. This “double dipping” seems to have been brought to the attention of US lawmakers, who have asked auditors to investigate. It’s not looking good for Prof Shukla:
According to [House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith]’s letter, the audit “appears to reveal that Dr. Shukla engaged in what is referred to as ‘double dipping.’ In other words, he received his full salary at GMU, while working full time at IGES and receiving a full salary there.”
Mr. Smith cites a memo from the school’s internal auditor in claiming that Mr. Shukla appeared to violate the university’s policy on outside employment and paid consulting. The professor received $511,410 in combined compensation from the school and IGES in 2014, according to Mr. Smith, “without ever receiving the appropriate permission from GMU officials.”
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
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Well, as Richard Nixon learned, you really should’t try to “get” people who have more on you than you do on them…
Many, many years ago…1957 to be exact…George Mason was a pretty good school. Even had a law school for those who could not get into Georgetown, GW or American. How is it ranked today?
According to US News & World Report (and Google):
Georgetown #14
George Mason #42
I also Googled “how many US law schools”: answer is 205 ABA-approved schools
But it’s OK, he will shortly be able to join his old buddy Pachauri in jail! They can talk all day about how they saved the world – I’m sure all the other inmates will be enthralled.
The latest on Pachauri:
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-rk-pachauri-sends-almost-6000-love-messages-to-former-colleague-2185698
What a racket!
If he gets out of this investigation he deserves a spot in the Hillary team like maybe WH science adviser or EPA director. He may have what it takes, at least from the key Teflon test used by dear leaders.
Now stop and have a think about this. Here we have a staunch supporter of the AGW meme schlepping money from the warmistas into his back pocket. All of this money was already thrown away anyway…………”studies” related to a problem that doesn’t exist.
I’m sorry, but I just don’t have a problem with relieving fools of their money. Even if that money is our tax dollars. Remember, all of this money was earmarked to study a non-existent problem. This money was a “total loss” the very moment it was so earmarked.
So, from that perspective, does it really matter whose back pocket it ended up in? Had it been spent as intended, it would still have ended up in the back pockets of many other scam artists. So, does it really matter all that much if it ended up in one scam artist’s back pocket or many?