Saul
Lemoi, convicted of bribery and kickbacks in a scheme involving the stimulus
funded home weatherization program in Rhode Island, faces possible imprisonment
for 15 years and fines of up to half a million dollars at an August 23
sentencing hearing. Acting as a senior energy auditor for not for profit
Comprehensive Community Action Program which received $1.5 million in
Department of Energy home weatherization grants, Lemoi persuaded a
co-conspirator to form a company named Weathertight Solutions, then steered
$75,000.00 in work to the new business, and prepared invoices to CCAP for
Weathertight work which was never performed, and collected kickbacks from the
company.
The
Weathertight investigation was handled by agents from the Department of Energy
and the HHS Inspector General, and the prosecution was headed by U. S. Attorney
Peter Neronha.
