Business as usual in Portland, Oregon

Scammers gotta scam - from the London Daily Mail:

Woke Portland city bosses award $12m clean energy contract aimed at boosting racial equity to bankrupt fraudster accused of lying about her prior experience

• • Portland city officials have awarded a nearly $12 million clean energy contract to Diversifying Energy, a nonprofit run by Linda Woodley, 71
  • She has served time in prison over the past 25 years for defrauding energy companies and racked up millions of dollars in liens for unpaid taxes
  • Woodley has also faced accusations of failing to disclose financial records
  • She claims all of that legal trouble goes back to a 1997 conviction for committing tax and bankruptcy fraud and claims that is behind her
  • She also denied claims that she fabricated or exaggerated her proposal by claiming she 'managed' a $30 million energy upgrade program in Los Angeles
  • The program's overseers say they never heard of her
  • Portland city officials now say they will revise how they vet bid proposals

Woke Portland city officials have awarded a nearly $12 million clean energy contract to a nonprofit run by a woman convicted of defrauding energy companies.

According to an investigation by the Oregonian, Linda Woodley, 71, has served time in prison over the past 25 years for defrauding energy companies, and racked up millions of dollars in liens for unpaid federal and state taxes - including a six-figure penalty filed just earlier this year.

She has also faced accusations of failing to disclose financial records, and has been investigated by the IRS.

But Portland city officials awarded her nonprofit organization, Diversifying Energy, a contract worth nearly $12 million earlier this month to purchase, deliver and install portable (h)eat pumps and cooling units inside 15,000 homes and apartments of low-income individuals.

The Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund tapped her for the program, and the City Council unanimously approved the grant - despite concerns from some staff members who were concerned about the nonprofit's high personnel costs and proposed delivery timeline.

Nothing surprising there.  One question?  Why portable?  Betting that if this goes through, the majority of these will go "missing".  Bolt it to the wall - use a mini-split. Who said they had to be portable?