It’s marvellous. One-Term Barry’s so-called Stimulus package has left a well documented trail of corruption and wasted cash in its wake, so it was only a matter of time before some of the discredited Climategate scientists got in on the money-splurge.

In the end it turns out that one of the main beneficiaries is the crook at the top, “Doctor” Michael Mann – one of the central players behind the fraud perpetrated on the global community by the Warmist movement. Despite being largely swept under the carpet by the dead-tree press on both sides of the Atlantic (who remembers or has even heard about the parallel fraud uncovered in Australia and New Zealand) the e-mail scandal is still rattling on with Mann remaining under investigation at Pennsylvania State University. Quite how objective will that investigation now be? Not very, one would imagine, as he’s bringing them a massive half a million dollars of Stimulus cash.

The National Center for Public Research tells us:

In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.
“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project.
Professor Mann is currently under investigation by Penn State University because of activities related to a closed circle of climate scientists who appear to have been engaged in agenda-driven science. Emails and documents mysteriously released from the previously-prestigious Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom revealed discussions of manipulation and destruction of research data, as well as efforts to interfere with the peer review process to stifle opposing views. The motivation underlying these efforts appears to be a coordinated strategy to support the belief that mankind’s activities are causing global warming.
“It’s no wonder that Obama’s stimulus plan is failing to produce jobs. Taxpayer dollars aren’t being used in the ways most likely to spur job creation. The stimulus was not sold to the public as a way to reward a loyalist in the climate change debate. Nor was the stimulus sold as a way to promote the Obama Administration’s position on the global warming theory. This misuse of stimulus money illustrates why tax cuts are a better way to stimulate the economy than letting the government decide where to spend taxpayer dollars. As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds,” said Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network.
“Mann’s credentials as a climate change alarmist seems to fit the political criteria for stimulus funds sometimes known as ‘Obama money’,” added Deneen Borelli.

The Situmulus money was all about saving jobs. Specifically the jobs of one Barack Hussein Obama and a few hundred Democrat lawmakers. It looks as though Doctor Fraud has added his name to that list.