Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush'

Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush': The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.John C. Beale’s crimes were “inexplicable” and “unbelievably egregious," said Judge Ellen Huvelle in imposing the sentence in a Washington. D.C. federal co