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Andrew C. McCarthy a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Wall Street) makes the sensational charge of criminal fraud being the issue in the Obama administration's handling of $535m of US Government loans to the recently bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.

North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) report they recently discovered evidence of several IT (information technology) staff being engaged in thievery of upwards of $300k via fraudulent refunds from toll authority monies.

One of the old giants of American physics Harold (Hal) Lewis, professor at Princeton, Berkeley, Bell Labs, and Uni Cal Santa Barbara has finally resigned from the American Physical Society (APS) after protracted efforts to get them to appoint a panel to reconsider alarmist pronouncements on global warming. He says the premier professional associations of American physicists has been corrupted by government grants and zealotry.

Telvent has formally requested that MTA Bridges and Tunnels (MTAB&T) bring forward an audit of their E-ZPass maintenance contract and associated accounts in response to sensational allegations of "fraud"  by Phil Leshinsky, former senior officer of Telvent and further back at MTAB&T itself. In a separate development we have the first reaction from MTAB&T whom we have hit with a number of questions.

Two of six employees of Aggregate Industries NE have pled guilty in US District Court in Boston to being part of a conspiracy to rip off the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority by sending bad concrete to the Big Dig project. The six were indicted on US charges in 2006.

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web Today picked up this case of environmental idiocy reaching new heights - an unwillingness to use salt on Seattle roads because they don't want to "contaminate" Puget Sound with the runoff.