{"id":345,"date":"2011-09-23T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-09-23T14:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:28:03","slug":"solyndra-executives-refuse-to-testify-at-hearing-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/solyndra-executives-refuse-to-testify-at-hearing-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Solyndra Executives Refuse To Testify At Hearing : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/23\/140738958\/solyndra-executives-refuse-to-testify-at-hearing?ft=1&amp;f=1014\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/solyndra_wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company have declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan.<\/p>\n<p>Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and the company&#8217;s chief financial officer, Bill Stover, both invoked their Fifth Amendment right to decline to testify to avoid self-incrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison told the House Energy and Commerce Committee Friday: &#8220;On advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer any questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stover did the same.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/23\/140738958\/solyndra-executives-refuse-to-testify-at-hearing?ft=1&amp;f=1014\">Solyndra Executives Refuse To Testify At Hearing : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company have declined to testify before a congressional hearing investigating their half-billion dollar government loan. Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and the company&#8217;s chief financial officer, Bill Stover, both invoked their Fifth Amendment right to decline to testify to avoid self-incrimination. Harrison told the House Energy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,111,22],"tags":[225,227,71,224,226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}