Obama’s New $1.2 Billion SunPower Loan Scandal – Twice As Big As Solyndra

Obama's New $1.2 Billion SunPower Loan Scandal - Twice as big as Solyndra

Obama's New $1.2 Billion SunPower Loan Scandal - Twice as big as Solyndra

The Obama administration gave another obviously failing California solar company $1.2 billion in federal loan guarantees, even though the company had only weeks earlier announced that they would be building a new manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Mexico to manufacturer the solar panels.

So much for American jobs, as well as so much for the billions of our tax dollars the Obama administration flushed down the toilet, as payouts to their friends and supporters.

The Obama administration – Corruption and Crony Capitalism at it’s finest.

How did a failing California solar company, buffeted by short sellers and shareholder lawsuits, receive a $1.2 billion federal loan guarantee for a photovoltaic electricity ranch project—three weeks after it announced it was building new manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Mexico, to build the panels for the project.

The company, SunPower (SPWR-NASDAQ), now carries $820 million in debt, an amount $20 million greater than its market capitalization. If SunPower was a bank, the feds would shut it down. Instead, it received a lifeline twice



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More Solar Companies Receiving Federal Loans Tied to Democratic Donors

Very soon we will all see very clearly that the Obama administration used their loan guarantee power as a means to pay back the people who helped the Obama administration – either with political support (Nancy Pelosi – Tonopah Solar) or with cash donations (George Kaiser – Solyndra Scandal).

In the past 2 years, the brash Obama administration may have been able to pull off this type of scandal without taking much heat, but the American People have awoken from their teleprompter-induced trance, and are now paying close attention to the actions of the Obama administration.

A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democratic campaigns.

And as questions swirl around possible connections between political donations and these preferential financing arrangements, the Obama White House suddenly began deflecting The Daily Caller’s questions on Wednesday to the Democratic National Committee.

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