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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.

The FTA also reported that USDA has not been able to  establish that the USDA is fully aware of the biotechnology scam that it is running.   The FTA claims that the USDA has not been able to provide any more information or information that would enable  the FTA to make its case that SNAP and others in the SNAP fraud community are not being treated fairly by the Department of Agriculture .

So how can the government effectively prosecute biofuel fraud when it is clearly not an actual crime? First, the government should be completely transparent.  It should give the public a public record of