9.12.2011

SolarGate: Obama's crony capitalist deal with bankrupt Solyndra

You can now add "crony capitalist" to all the other things you've been calling Obama.

Bloomberg:
Two months before Obama’s visit, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP warned that Solyndra, the recipient of $535 million in federal loan guarantees, had financial troubles deep enough to “raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.”

The Obama administration stood by Solyndra through the auditor’s warning, the abandonment of a planned initial public offering and a last-ditch refinancing where taxpayers took a back seat to new investors. That unwavering commitment has come under increasing scrutiny since the company’s travails culminated in its filing for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 6 and a raid on its headquarters by the Federal Bureau of Investigation two days later.

“People including our government put blinders on and did not want to believe in the obvious,” Jonathan Dorsheimer, an analyst in Boston for Canaccord Genuity Inc. of Vancouver, said in an interview with Bloomberg Government. “The fact that the government chose Solyndra as their white horse is mind- boggling.”

Mind-boggling except for the fact that the beneficiary of the $535 million taxpayer bailout is George Kaiser, a big Obama fundraiser. Funny how that works.

1 comment:

Doo Doo Econ said...

Did Bloomberg happen to mention the bungler bundler? And how can the title "Bundler Blunder" not grasp this issue?

Happy Super Tuesday!