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Black workers at a Michigan battery plant built with a $150 
million federal stimulus grant but never opened played games and 
watched movies while their wages were paid for by U.S. 
taxpayers, according to a government report.

South Korea-based LG Chem, which used the grant money to build a 
factory that was supposed to make batteries for the Chevy Volt, 
has paid back $842,000 in wages it improperly billed to the 
government, but still has no plans to start production in the 
facility or return the grant. The company makes Volt batteries 
at another plant in South Korea.

�Our review revealed that LG Chem Michigan inappropriately 
claimed and was reimbursed for labor charges incurred by a 
variety of supervisory and staff employees for activities that 
did not benefit the project,� stated the report, by the DOE�s 
Inspector General. �� we confirmed that employees spent time 
volunteering at local non-profit organizations, playing games 
and watching movies during regular working hours.�

The report blamed company officials as well as the DOE, charging 
the federal agency failed to make the grant conditional on the 
company actually starting production at the plant. LG Chem 
claims production has not been expanded to the U.S. plant 
because demand for the Volt has not yet required it.

�Until the shift in production takes place or some alternative 
use for the plant is developed, U.S. taxpayers will receive 
little direct benefit from a plant for which they provided up to 
half of the funding,� the report stated.

The report was begun after the DOE received complaints that 
idled LG Chem workers were playing games and watching movies 
inside the dormant factory.

The Inspector General said getting LG Chem to return some of the 
labor costs � a drop in the bucket compared to the overall grant 
� was the best taxpayers could hope for because the grant was 
awarded without sufficient strings attached. And even the labor 
costs could be low, the report stated.

�We were unable to calculate the exact loss to the government 
because LG Chem Michigan did not track labor activities in 
detail,� according to the report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/14/movies-and-games-but-
no-work-at-battery-plant-funded-by-150m-stimulus-
grant/?intcmp=obinsite

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