CJ’s Don Carrington reports a company owned by the husband of Sen. Kay Hagan used $250k in federal stimulus to funds to —this is ripe —–hire his own company:
Public records show that Green State Power was formed seven weeks before JDC Manufacturing — a company owned in part by Greensboro attorney Charles “Chip” Hagan III, Sen. Hagan’s husband — received the stimulus grant for the solar project at a 300,000-square-foot facility in Reidsville, N.C.
A story in late September on the Washington, D.C.-based website Politico revealed that JDC Manufacturing received “nearly $390,000 in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law, according to public records and information provided by the company.”
The story reported that JDC “was one of 27 in North Carolina to be awarded funds for energy-efficient projects, to the tune of about $250,000. The company received the money in 2011, after the first phase of the project was completed in late 2010.”
Hagan has denied helping her husband secure the stimulus funds directly —do I even need to remind anyone that she voted that she voted in favor of President Obama’s stimulus package?—-adding that “a respected ethics attorney was consulted to ensure that it was appropriate, and the attorney found that it was,” according to her spokeswoman.
Of course the rules are for everyone to play by — Politico adds that Hagan opponent Thom Tillis “voted in 2010 to allow the state to participate in the federal renewable energy tax credit program, which benefited a bank in which he owns at least $50,000 in stock.”
