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Solyndra executives testify about negarn federal loan. Washington, 20 sep () .- The chief executive of energy company Solyndra, which was launched as a model for the U.S. government before entering bankruptcy, negarna testify before Congress Friday about a pr Stamo 535 million federal dollars, local media reported today.
Both the president and CEO of Solyndra, Brian Harrison, as its chief financial officer, W. G. Stover, were summoned to a hearing this upcoming Friday before the Committee on, world of tanks power leveling, Commerce Energay the Chamber of Representatives on the loan granted in 2009 polmico.
But, according to CNN and the Californian newspaper "The Mercury News," both invocarn the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitucin, which can not compel anyone to testify against himself s, contestarna and questions from lawmakers investigating the case of the loan, buy rift platinum, granted to the solar panel manufacturer.
Harrison's lawyers sent letters Stover to inform Congress today that both guardarn silent during the hearing Friday, said "The Mercury News."
Given the current situacin facing Solyndra, whose offices were raided by federal agents last September 8, "I had no opcinms to counsel the Lord Harrison invokes rights under the Fifth Amendment," said in a letter to the attorney Walter Brown of the law firm Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe.
Last week, however, told Committee members who had received guarantor that both executives pay Declaration at the hearing.
Solyndra, which declared bankruptcy earlier this month and laid off 1,100 employees, is the subject of separate investigations by the departments, Rift Power leveling, of Treasury Energay United States and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The Judiciary Committee chairman of the Chamber Baja, Lamar Smith, has called for an independent RESEARCH case, considering that it is necessary to determine whether, under pressure POLICIES, the favored Obama Administracin Solyndra, based in Fremont (California).
Solyndra's case, I received the loan with low interest rates Energa Department, gave credit to the oposicin Republican who has criticized the Economic measures have always been U.S. President Barack Obama.
Segna observers, the case may be Empa corrupcin appeals to the development of energy sources "clean" of Administracin President Obama, who sealed bean as a model Solyndra for government investment in these energy sources on a visit to the factory in 2010.
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