James R. Healey
USA Today
2/9/2012
The activist group Judicial Watch says it has sued the Department of Energy to obtain records detailing the DOE’s $529 million loan promise to Fisker Automotive, maker of luxury electrified vehicles.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says it appears that the government “shelled out over half-a-billion dollars to a failing and incompetent green energy company.”
Judicial Watch previously sought the records under the Freedom of Information Act, but hadn’t received them by Feb. 1, so sued to get the records. The group disclosed the suit late Wednesday.
DOE should “turn off the government spigot to Fisker,” Fitton says…
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