Although it has received scant attention, one of the central figures involved the Solyndra scandal may be Missy Owens, the niece of Vice President Joe Biden.
Missy, whose real name is Valerie James Owens, is the Energy Department's deputy Chief of Staff. She served in that capacity when the Solyndra $535 million loan guarantee was approved.
Owens' name is on a number of e-mails and documents about Solyndra, including a September 2009 DOE "Events Memo." The memo starts by quoting the Vice President who predicted the Solyndra loan guarantee would be regarded as "the foundation of our 21st century economy." Owens was involved in the timing of the groundbreaking ceremony that got the Vice President to extol the virtues of the company.
Politics in the Biden world is a family affair. Owens' mother, Valerie Biden Owens is the Vice President's sister. She ran political campaigns for her brother Joe. Missy also served as a campaign manager for her brother Joe "Beau" Biden.

Rep. Cliff Stearns, chairman of the House Oversight and Investigation subcommittee will be leading a number of hearings in November on the Solyndra affair. At this time it appears DOE will not provide Missy Owens as a witness.
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Obama and Biden gave Solyndra half a billion in guaranteed loans from the stimulus bill for their phony green energy business. The company took the loan in 2009 and went bankrupt and was defunct by 2011. Now Biden is claiming he doesn't support any green energy subsidies and that's why you should trust him. Yeah right.
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Nov 4, 2011Senior executives at Solyndra collected hefty bonuses -- ranging from $37,000 to $60,000 apiece -- as the Fremont company bled cash and careened toward bankruptcy this summer.
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The GOP says that Team Obama interfered to speed up the loan approval, cutting short due diligence so that Vice President Joe Biden could announce the loan at the Sept. 4, 2009, groundbreaking of a new Solyndra factory being financed by that government cash." 7.
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2. Vice President Joe Biden was scheduled to appear at the groundbreaking of the Solyndra factory. A major PR push for the White House was the intention of the Recovery Act to create jobs and support green energy. Biden wanted to be able to announce that the Obama administration was providing Solyndra with a $535 million federal stimulus loan.
In one e-mail, an assistant to Rahm Emanuel, then White House chief of staff, wrote on Aug. 31, 2009, to OMB about the upcoming Biden announcement on Solyndra and asked whether "there is ...
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While Solyndra is the most prominent example of the Obama-Biden White House's green energy mirage, it certainly wasn't the only one. Exelon - a Fortune 100 energy company and significant donor to the administration - also received significant favors from them.
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"As with his comments touting Solyndra, Biden's remarks on Ener1 show how wrong the Obama Administration has been with these loan guarantees and grants," Sterns said on his website. "Instead of ...