Remember the twenty climate scientists we told you about last week who wrote an open letter to President Obama and AG Lynch asking for the Department of Justice to use the RICO act to investigate “corporations and other organizations” that they claim “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change”?

Well here’s a little more information on Jagadish Shukla, the top-billed scientist on the letter. According to this report unearthed by Roger Pielke Jr., Shukla and his wife are getting really rich at taxpayer expense:

Leader of RICO20 climate scis runs his gov't grants thru a "non-profit"Pays him & wife $500k/yr for part-time workhttp://t.co/W5qd3ZIfBD — Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 20, 2015

Investigative reporters, you are welcome –> http://t.co/W5qd3ZIfBD — Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 20, 2015

From 2012-2014 Leader of RICO20 climate scis paid self &wife $1.5M from gov't climate grants for part-time work–>. http://t.co/t8tx5HR8kS — Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 20, 2015

The $350k-400k/yr paid leader of the RICO20 from his "non-profit" presumably on top of his $250k/yr academic salary http://t.co/p3BZfblKuD — Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 20, 2015

(Here’s a better link than the one above to Shukla’s salary at George Mason Univ. )

And in total:

That totals to $750k/yr to the leader of the RICO20 from public money for climate work & going after skeptics. Good work if you can get it. — Roger Pielke Jr. (@RogerPielkeJr) September 20, 2015

Great. Taxpayers are funding Shukla’s call to tear up the Constitution and criminally prosecute people he doesn’t agree with. Time for that to come to an end.

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