Dive Summary:

• John C. Beale, a former deputy assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), may face fines and 10 years in jail after being charged Friday for stealing $886,186 from the agency from 2000 to 2013.
• A 20-year EPA veteran, Beale served in the Office of Air and Radiation, which EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy oversaw from 2009 until 2013, when she assumed the agency’s head role.
• “This fraud was occurring for many years at the EPA’s critical Air office, and during a period of time that Gina McCarthy was the administrator of the Air office,” Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said in a statement. “It’s clear that further investigations are necessary.”

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“An agency spokeswoman said the EPA is coordinating closely with its inspector general and the Justice Department on the complaint.”