Did an hour or so of digging and found some interesting connections including a plausible motive, Obama/Clinton cronyism, and Russian nuclear energy.
A quick primer: Ashley Turton worked for Progress Energy Inc. and was involved in their upcoming merger deal with Duke Energy (this is all in the green energy sector). She died under suspicious circumstances on January 10, 2011, the same day Duke agreed to buy Progress for $13.7 billion in stock, creating the largest U.S. power company upon winning merger approval from regulators. Turton would have played a key role discussing the merger. (
Progress Energy Lobbyist Ashley Turton Dies in Not-Entirely-Explained Car Fire | Sunshine State News | Florida Political News).
Summary of conclusions: (1) Duke Energy is in bed with Clinton/Obama; (2) Duke energy would massively benefit from the merger (3) The merger was bad for Progress and Turton was in a perfect position to kill it.
(1) Duke Energy, under CEO Jim Rogers, is in bed with Clinton/Obama. Duke Energy is one of the [largest recipients of federal green energy stimulus grants][
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlott...ke-energy-scored-almost-900m-from-grants.html) and a top-level donor ($1m - $5m) to Clinton Foundation. CEO Jim Rogers is an Obama donor and cheerleader as well as a regularly-featured attendee for the Clinton Global Initiative.
In 2010:
Duke Energy received a license exempting it from the Treasury Department's uranium enrichment sanctions regime, allowing the company to take delivery of a good or service from O.A.O. Techsnabexport Company Limited. OFAC redactions make it impossible to tell what type of good or service was at issue, or precisely why Duke would need an OFAC license. Thomas Williams, a Duke spokesman, did not respond to a request for comment on the license. The sanctions regime at issue relates to a Clinton-era agreement, known as the H.E.U. Purchase Agreement. The agreement provided that 500 tons of highly enriched uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons would be blended to proliferation-resistant low-enriched uranium by 2013. The material would be sold to the United States for resale as fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.
Also in 2010, Tenex, that Russian company, created a U.S. subsidiary called TENAM Corporation, whose general director got nailed on conspiracy to commit money laundering in 2015. Food for thought.
I'm sure the rabbit hole goes deeper but I've made my point.
(2) Duke Energy would massively benefit from the merger.
Let's go back to Duke Energy's history of receiving stimulus grants, found here. Notice that, in 2010, a year before the merger, both Progress and Duke both scored $200 million in stimulus money from the Smart Grid Investment Grant Program. $200 million was the maximum award - only 4 companies received it (Duke, Progress, and two others also part of the swamp). So the merger (which was definitely in the works in 2010) effectively allowed Duke Energy to double up on free taxpayer money.
More importantly, though, Duke Energy would throw a coup immediately after the merger and unseat Progress CEO William Johnson and replace him with Jim Rogers. Originally, the merger deal had Johnson stay on as CEO with Rogers underneath.
(3) The merger was bad for Progress and Turton was in a perfect position to kill it.
The CEO hijacking caused an uproar as Progress' board would never have done the deal had they known this would happen. This prompted a shitshow of settlements and litigation lasting years.
Why wouldn't they have approved? Because Progress had a better offer on the table from Dominion Resources. You see, corporate law requires directors to take the best deal available. Dominion offered more money, so the only reason they could choose Duke was because of non-monetary factors - a big one being their ability to keep their CEO.
If Progress had known about this, Duke Energy would have gotten FUCKED. One expert states:
"The calculus was that, if this was revealed a week ago, this would have delayed the merger," Gruber said."There would have been something all parties would've wanted to investigate. Another extension of time might have jeopardized the whole merger." If the merger wasn't finalized by July 8, either side could have walked away without penalty.
But now that the merger was finalized, Progress is fucked, since backing out would cost them hundreds of millions in termination fees.
CONCLUSION: I think Turton knew about or suspected this and was either on her way to alert the board before the deal closed, or would have later raised issue with the regulators to prevent approval. If so, she would be a HUGE threat to Duke Energy and the entire Clinton/Obama green energy machine.
MOVING FORWARD: Find out more about Duke Energy around 2010-2011 and cross reference any persons of interest with those involved with the Clean Power Plan in early 2016.
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