Prior to reading this thread, I'd never heard of something like "Solyndra" in my life.
Whatever it is about, it's probably not a "major" scandal for that very reason.
Attorneys rarely know anything about accounting or financial analysis. Most can do many things -- medicine of any kind, engineering, scientific research, and accounting generally excluded, and all for good reason. Those are highly specialized to the extent that the people who do them generally sacrifice whatever competence they have in anything else during their training. Physicians, pharmacists, veterinarians, nurses, dentists, chemists, physicists, biologists, systems analysts, engineers, and accountants are smart people, but their learning is incompatible with what the Presidency requires.
Dubya made a bigger blunder in becoming a more intimate buddy of crooks at Enron, and that did not keep him from winning re-election. This is from someone with an MBA who had poor judgment of the character of people he was dealing with. Sociopathic con-artists bamboozled Dubya; the prospect of scientific and engineering miracles dazzled President Obama.