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CBS Miami released a scathing exposé on how Patrick Murphy made his way into the Senate: lying.
Read some excerpts from the tell-all story:
The Making of Patrick Murphy, Part 1
CBS Miami
By Jim DeFede
June 22, 2016
Murphy’s rise is extraordinary because of how little he seems to have accomplished to get here.
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After graduating in 2006, he joined Deloitte & Touche as an audit assistant. He did not meet the minimum requirements to become a Certified Public Accountant in Florida, opting instead to apply for a license in Colorado, even though he did not live or work there. He applied in Colorado because the requirements were lower.
Before gaining approval in Colorado, Murphy took the licensing exam nine times before passing it. Even with a CPA license in Colorado, his opportunities in Florida were limited because his license was not valid in the Sunshine State.
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After two and a half years at Deloitte & Touche, Murphy resigned and less than three months later started Coastal Environmental Services. Coastal would be one of the hundreds of companies and businesses that would take part in the cleanup.
“So I was able to get some oil skimmers together, move to New Orleans for several months,” he explained. “We were prepared, we actually redesigned the oil skimmers to put them on a trailer bring them down to the Keys. Thankfully that oil didn’t make it in the loop current [for Florida] so I stayed in New Orleans cleaning up up there.”
In his two runs for Congress and his current campaign for the Senate, Patrick Murphy has repeatedly pointed to his experience as a Certified Public Accountant and a small business owner as reasons why voters should support him.
Portraying himself as an experienced CPA and small business owner has always been critical to the political persona created for his campaigns. They conveyed a sense of seriousness and stability which he otherwise lacked.
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A CBS4 News investigation into Murphy’s history as both a CPA and a self-described small business owner, however, shows Murphy has in some cases exaggerated his experience and in other instances made claims that were misleading or outright false.
For instance, he has never worked a day in his life as a Certified Public Accountant.
And he was never a small business owner.
The Making of Patrick Murphy, Part 2
CBS Miami
By Jim DeFede
June 23, 2016
Murphy has long maintained voters could trust him because of his experience as a CPA and a self-described small business owner.
“I believe that my background as a CPA and a small business owner is exactly what we need to put our country back on track,” Murphy said during his first campaign for Congress in 2012. It is a line he has repeated in all his campaigns.
The business he started is called Coastal Environmental Services. It was created in the aftermath of the Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
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Called the Near Shore Rapid Response Oil Recovery Vessel, referred to by the acronym NSRRV, Coastal Environmental boasted they were “the most effective, economical, and reliable boat in the industry.
In press releases, brochures, and marketing material dating back to 2010 when the NSRRV was launched to clean up oil during the BP disaster, Coastal Environmental maintained the boat is “capable of collecting 100 percent of heavy oil, 90 percent of oil sheen while effectively collecting and storing tar balls.”
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As proof of their claims, the company has repeatedly cited the results from a private testing facility. “The NSRRV was tested and proven at the National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility (OHMSETT), which provides independent and objective performance testing of full-scale oil response equipment,” one press release stated.
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OHMSETT officials, however, say they have no record of testing Murphy’s NSRRV. Dave Devitis, who has worked at OHMSETT for 24 years and been the Director of Testing for the last fifteen, told CBS4 News he did not recall testing that boat, even though he is involved in almost all of the tests conducted on the site.
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