by Frank Holmes, reporter
For a man of his age, Joe Biden doesn’t show much sympathy for senior citizens.
His administration just gave billions of dollars to a solar panels company that is accused of ripping off elderly dementia patients on their deathbeds.
The company at the center of the controversy is Sunnova Energy, a solar energy company that’s facing dozens of allegations that it ripped off seniors.
Biden thought that behavior deserved a taxpayer-funded cash infusion.
Biden’s Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office recently gave a $3 billion federal loan to Sunnova Energy. The company claims the money will go to help “disadvantaged homeowners and communities” — but incensed families say too many Americans became disadvantaged because of the Biden-linked loan beneficiary.
One Sunnova salesman reportedly signed up an 86-year-old man to a contract to get his energy from the company’s solar panels… for 25 years. The $34,000 contract would not have expired until the dementia patient reached the unlikely age of 111. Unfortunately, he never made it.
Another woman said Sunnova sold another 25-year contract, for $86,000 this time, to her 80-year-old mother who was “blind, bed bound, partially deaf, on dialysis, with congestive heart failure” at the time Sunnova talked her into signing the papers. Her mother only used the energy three months before dying… but her family is on the hook for the whole amount.
A lot of surviving family members want to sell their parents’ homes, only to find out first they have to pay off the full amount of the Sunnova contract.
A grief-stricken survivor named Mary Loller remembers, “My dad told [the Sunnova salesman] at that time he was on hospice and dying. And basically, he wasn’t in his right mind” when she claims a Sunnova hustler talked him into buying a $60,000 solar panel system. When the man died months later, Sunnova allegedly put a lien against the deceased man’s mobile home until the money could be paid in full.
To say the least, Sunnova seems awfully shady.
Its practices generated dozens of complaints in one year, in one state alone.
At least 50 people have filed formal allegations against Sunnova Energy with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton since 2022.
The Biden-linked company doesn’t contest that it signs up the sick and elderly. Sunnova says a customer’s age or mental condition won’t stand in their way of making a sale.
The company admitted it will not “decline to enter into an agreement based on a customer’s age”…although it claims, “All customers, regardless of age, are required to complete a thorough validation process where we confirm their identity and ensure that they have read and comprehended the terms of their agreements.”
The victims say they’re going public to save others from having the same experience. “If I can’t recoup the money my mom needs, at least maybe I can help others that they might scam,” the daughter of another victim told the Washington Free Beacon.
She wants to help seniors; Joe Biden wants to help the alleged scammers.
The Biden administration’s $3 billion loan commitment is “the largest-ever DOE commitment to a solar company,” notes the Washington Free Beacon…and everything about the decision is shady.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A powerful Democratic politician hands out cash to people who give him cash.
In this case, the Biden official is the head of the DOE Loan Programs Office: His name is Jigar Shah. The Wall Street Journal calls him Biden’s “billion dollar man,” since he decides who gets federal dollars.
Shah founded the Cleantech Leaders Roundtable… and even though he’s a government official, he’s attended at least 10 paid lunches at his old group.
As it turns out, that group is all-but announcing their old friend is giving them money.
Cleantech Leaders’s executive director bragged that at one of these paid luncheons, they would have Shah, who gives away “Hundreds of Billions $$$$$$.”
Guess who’s on Cleantech Leaders’s board? Sunnova Energy.
That’s not all: Sunnova’s leader has personally sucked up to Joe Biden by going on TV to promote Biden’s economic agenda.
Sunnova CEO John Berger told CNBC just how great Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act” was last year.
The inflation-creating budget-buster was a great piece of legislation, Sunnova’s head said, because it “really opens the doors to further growth for the industry.”
He claimed poor people would benefit from the bill. “This expands into the disadvantaged communities that really have not been not able to access solar as a service, as much as they would like to, of course.”
Solar companies will “folks who really need to save money, given these very high utility bills,” he said.
President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act today – Sunnova CEO John Berger layed out the significant impact the legislation will have pic.twitter.com/Bo7Qego5SY
— Mad Money On CNBC (@MadMoneyOnCNBC) August 16, 2022
One year later, Bidenflation is still bad — and it’s actually worse than it appears.
On the books, the official inflation rate is 3.2 percent this month… but if you look at the real inflation numbers, the way they were calculated in 1990, inflation, is actually about eight percent.
Food prices are skyrocketing, and gas is still higher than under Trump.
14 percent of the elderly live in poverty in Joe Biden’s America.
No wonder 80% of senior citizens want a better cost of living adjustment in their Social Security.
But they’ll have to take a back seat: Joe Biden’s giving their money to his friends in the Green energy industries.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”