Government Accountability & Oversight
Information in the public domain has in recent years revealed that fiduciaries of the public fisc have been granting a law firm extremely lucrative “contingency fee” (or contingency-ish) contracts to file “climate” lawsuits on behalf of governmental subdivisions—even though the firm is shown in FOIA’d emails and IRS filings to be the recipient of what is now […]
After initial revelations raised tax, ethical questions, charitable foundation lists ‘contingency fee’ tort firm as both gift recipient and “highest compensated independent contractor” for nearly $5 million just in 2020 Is the total from a single pass-through now $7.6 million, or a mere $5.2 million for first four years of suits? ‘What did these politicians […]
Within hours of Energy Policy Advocates filing suit against the Minnesota Office of Attorney General this morning (noted by Government Accountability & Oversight here), in part over a missing contract hiring an outside law firm to sue energy companies for climate change, the Minnesota Office of Management and Budget provided the group with the contract in […]
California’s Department of Justice has taken a different approach to bringing in outside counsel to help with its entry in the climate litigation sweepstakes —a “Lawsuit [that] is potentially worth many billions of dollars.” Rather than granting a firm a ‘standard’ (i.e., potentially massive), ‘contingency‘ fee contract out of purported taxpayer damages (whether or not […]
Following up on, e.g., this post, Government Accountability & Oversight has filed suit against the Maine Office of the Attorney General over Maine’s categorical denial of requests for records of obvious public interest, of the same and similar kind of those which have been routinely released by other states (either voluntarily or when forced by […]