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Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: metamorph ()
Date: December 23, 2019 10:08AM

Time (past time) to clean house...

Fairfax County, Virginia’s former schools auditor said that when a whistleblower brought her evidence that implicated Cenergistic as well as top school officials, both the whistleblower and the auditor were fired by those same officials.

From the Daily Caller: https://amp.dailycaller.com/2019/12/17/cenergistic-green-energy-enron

But a new lawsuit, a decade of government investigations, and news reports show that Cenergistic is an Enron-linked, for-profit company that has allegedly talked its way into no-bid contracts after secretly putting school officials on its payroll, and then billed districts for questionable savings whose basis it refuses to explain.

The contracts are typically awarded by school board members who want to make a statement about environmentalism, and are sometimes exempted from scrutiny on the basis that the money being paid is “free.”

The company teaches “employees how to save money on utility costs by monitoring and assessing usage, and making recommendations for energy conservation such as turning off computers when not in use; turning out the lights when rooms are vacant; reducing the plug load; and turning off vending machine lighting,” the Alabama Advance-Local reported in 2013.

In a lawsuit filed Nov. 1, 2019, the former auditor for Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia, Goli Trump, said she was fired by school board president Sandy Evans in retaliation for pursuing an investigation into Cenergistic that implicated superintendent Karen Garza as well as Evans herself.

As soon as FCPS created an independent auditor’s office, an employee of FCPS — one of the largest school districts in the country — told her “Cenergistic’s purported energy savings were not true and were in fact costing FCPS considerable sums of money,” the lawsuit said. The whistleblower, known as John Doe in the lawsuit, said he faced retaliation after reporting his concerns to supervisors.

“Moreover, John Doe pointed out that Cenergistic was supposed to receive payments in an amount equal to 50% of the realized energy savings by FCPS; although Cenergistic said it had saved FCPS $5 million, it had billed FCPS $4 million, and John Doe had been unable to find anyone who could explain this result,” the lawsuit said.

He also said “that the Cenergistic contract did not comply with public procurement requirements.”

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: clean it up ()
Date: December 23, 2019 02:56PM

i agree it is time to get rid of the higher ups at gatehouse. they all need to go. no surprise that this happened. fcps spent a lot of money on solution tree years ago too. solution tree was a company that peter noonan worked with. he was assistant superintendent that got it passed through so he could make money off of his position. fcps has multiple lawsuits over firing people like this. brabrand needs to be fired. john foster needs to be sent packing too. the school board is a joke. its sad that some of them run un apposed. we need people to step up and fight and report the corruption.

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: flying squirrel ()
Date: December 24, 2019 05:04PM

The auditor function is clearly NOT independent. Taxpayers just lost millions to this scam and cover-up. think about all the teachers we could have had....

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: U SHOULD B WORRIED ()
Date: January 04, 2020 04:49PM

Democrat or Republican, As tax payers in Fairfax County, all should be upset by these actions. IT's our kids that are affected by this misuse of funds. Stand up ask question on why this happened.

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: What else ()
Date: January 08, 2020 06:22AM

Anymore news on this?

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: Inquisitive One ()
Date: January 08, 2020 08:59AM

I didn't realize until just recently that Cenergistic has its roots in the infamously corrupt company named Enron. Add lack of researching the vendor qualification to the long list of problems with this waste of your hard earned tax dollars! Thank you for NOTHING, FCPS!

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: NoNewsHere? ()
Date: January 08, 2020 11:52AM

Have the Washington Post and Other local newsmaker reported on this?

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: Corrupt Fairfax Swamp ()
Date: January 08, 2020 03:49PM

Fairfax county government is so corrupt!@

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: Inquisitive One ()
Date: January 09, 2020 06:15AM

NoNewsHere? Wrote:
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> Have the Washington Post and Other local newsmaker
> reported on this?


Can you hear the entire world laughing at you for suggesting such a silly thing? That would require actual journalists that are capable of doing investigative journalism rather that publishing propaganda!

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Re: Corruption in contracting at FCPS - Cenergistic - fmr School Board and Superintendent implicated
Posted by: INDANOEHO ()
Date: January 09, 2020 11:17AM

Corrupt Fairfax Swamp Wrote:
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> Fairfax county government is so corrupt!@

Tip of the iceberg. Look at the Non-profits for housing that the community services board launders money through. violate zoning rules and then the county is on the hook to absorb mortgages on properties that should be condemned, over-assessed in value by 50%. Kickbacks galore for elected officials. True fascists

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