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Bradley A. Benbrook

Bradley Benbrook is a lawyer in Sacramento, California. He handles business litigation and disputes in the administrative and political arenas. He has handled a number of matters arising out of alleged violations of campaign finance laws. He also litigates on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants in False Claims Act suits.

Brad writes about California politics on the FlashReport, and he is Chairman of the Sacramento Valley Lincoln Club.

Brad grew up in Missouri. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990, where he played on the Stanford golf team. He earned his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley, where he co-founded the student chapter of the Federalist Society. He clerked for the Hon. J.L. Edmondson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta.

ClimateGate’s Next Phase: False Claims Act Lawsuit

by Bradley A. Benbrook

The United States government has shelled out huge sums of money to universities, think tanks, and businesses to study global warming climate change. The government is poised to dole out even more money for climate-change “solutions” like the cap-and-trade scheme. With the revelations about the lengths to which the leading group of global warming doomsayers went to “hide the decline” in temperatures in their seminal studies – studies that themselves spawned an avalanche of government spending – the world is seeing that the entire enterprise may be based on a fraud.

How FCA Works

In a normal scandal where the government appears to have been ripped off, someone in the legislative or executive branch can usually be counted on to investigate the alleged fraud, if for no other reason than advancing their own political career. In the case of this scandal, however, the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have calculated that their political interests are best served by ignoring ClimateGate. This is sure to continue as new scandals emerge.

That leaves only the judicial branch as a place where climate change fraud can be unmasked in a government forum.

Individuals with inside knowledge about scientists, businesses, or any organization who knowingly used false statements to get (or keep) government money to perpetuate the “climate change” machine should consider a lawsuit under the federal False Claims Act.

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