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While Schnabel's legal team was pleased with his sentence, they

Jan. 22, 2018 by Paul Fletcher

While Schnabel's legal team was pleased with his sentence, they were also dismayed by the fact that the "compound" of credit fraud was not actually a real money-laundering case, but instead an elaborate hoax.

As we discussed in my piece on the case, the federal government was able to get around three years of back-door payments from the USDA to make its case without a full hearing, and to claim that it had the money. But even after a hearing, USDA officials continued to claim that they had no knowledge of Schnabel's scheme and had used the money to buy other bogus credits.

Now, if there is one thing the government can't do, it's simply ignore these alleged crimes. The Department of Justice's Department of Justice Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General found that the Department's efforts to prosecute biofuel fraud are simply not being carried out, at least in the public interest. In fact, it is so far more troubling to see how the DOJ OIG did their job by withholding such information from the public.

The government has spent more than $5 million on the case, and the Office of the Inspector General reports that it has not given any indication whether it expects the Department of Justice to prosecute such fraud, or is simply unaware of its existence.

The Department's Office of the Inspector General reports that the Department's efforts to prosecute biofuel fraud are simply not being carried out, at least in the public interest

In December, the Department of Agriculture's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) sent a letter to USDA's Food and Agricultural Experiment Station (FAT), explaining that the department did not know that the "Biochemical and Veterinary Science Center has not received any of the Biochemical and Veterinary Science Center's Biochemical and Veterinary Science Credits (BVC) from the USDA.