They nowadays pretty much screw the public in favor of higher Corporate profits. I sure hell don't feel that they work for public safety.
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Warnings Go UnheededIn September, Ambutas learned that the fraudulent Factual Analysis was going to be included in documents EPA planned to submit to the court in response to the suit brought by the State of Wisconsin and other parties. He dutifully reported this unsettling development to Administrator Adamkus who, again, refused to undertake an investigation.
By January 1997, attorneys for the State of Wisconsin had become suspicious of the fabricated document and challenged its authenticity. Radell and Johnson-Schultz may have perjured themselves by swearing to the authenticity of the document they had fabricated. In response to Ambutas' continuing pressure for an internal investigation of the matter, Administrator Adamkus and other EPA officials met with him to discuss his charges on February 24, 1997. Adamkus still refused to order an investigation, saying Region V would "go for broke" in litigation.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) was subsequently asked to consider "ethical issues" relating to the case, but conspicuously failed to inform the court that questions about the authenticity of the Factual Analysis had been raised. Instead, Justice Department officials continued to file briefs with the court based on an EPA document the DOJ knew was under attack for being fraudulent. "The Justice Department's actions appear to fly in the face of a litigant's responsibility to disclose immediately any evidence of fraud upon the court," notes Larisa Dobriansky, senior counsel to the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee's subcommittee on national economic growth, natural resources, and regulatory affairs.
With Ambutas threatening to go public, the Justice Department on April 18 finally informed the court that it "has learned of allegations to suggest that affidavits submitted by the United States in this case may contain false statements," but failed to disclose its knowledge of the possible fraud committed by the two EPA employees. DOJ then expanded on the ignominious role it was already playing in the affair by seeking a court order forbidding attorneys or their clients from disclosing fraud and perjury pending an internal investigation by EPA. On May 27, the court rejected this request for a "gag order."
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http://www.nwi.org/SpecialStudies/EPAReport/EPAstudy.htm