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...Gore believes in extending the hand of government to nurture promising technologies. The case of Bill Haney and his toxic-waste washing machine shows the Vice President knows how to get a hand in return. In Washington it's often hard to line up the quid with the quo. But what this Massachusetts entrepreneur apparently got for the $82,000 he and his executives gave to Gore and the Democrats since 1994 is not hard to decipher: a fat contract from the Energy Department that kept being renewed over the objections of government scientists...
Since the Vice President took office, the Energy Department's cleanup division, headed until recently by a Gore protege, has awarded Haney's Molten Metal Technology $33 million to test its process on the poisoned remains of nuclear-weapons proving grounds--more money than 17 other companies have received collectively to do the same job. More startling is that the department kept lavishing dollars on the firm until this March, despite the advice of the government's own experts who, according to documents obtained by TIME, repeatedly challenged the effectiveness of Molten Metal's technology. They recommended the funding...
...spokesman for Gore insisted last week that there was no connection between Molten Metal's success at securing government subsidies and the contributions Haney made to the Vice President and his party. But in this case, Gore did not need to pick up the phone to have direct influence on the fortunes of Haney's company; Haney had all the right connections. His lobbyist, Peter Knight, is the hub of Gore's political circle. He ran Gore's House and Senate office for years, helped finance his campaigns and chaired the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in 1996. In Knight...
Knight arranged extraordinary access for a small contractor like Haney. He got him or his top executives into 10 meetings with Grumbly over two years. Haney and Grumbly dined together three times at such Washington haunts as Sam and Harry's and the Prime Rib. Haney also accompanied Knight to a select dinner party at the Vice President's residence...
What resulted was an unambiguous marriage of money and power illustrated by a few important dates: on March 24, 1994, Grumbly's office upped Haney's original $1.2 million award by $9 million--the same day the Democratic Party recorded a $15,000 contribution from Molten Metal. Fifteen months later, the Clinton-Gore campaign credited Haney and nine of his executives with $10,000 in contributions, the very day that Molten Metal landed an additional $10 million in research funds...