Government Accountability & Oversight
Rockefeller Family Fund ‘Cutout’ Revealed Ellison Suit Was Held Until Bloomberg Lawyers Were Provided Friday afternoon brings news of the withdrawal as counsel from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison‘s lawsuit against energy companies for purported climate sins. That SAAG is Leigh Currie (the remaining SAAG is Peter Surdo, who boasted on his LinkedIn site he […]
Paper trail puts the lie to MN AG Ellison’s Office denial it is using privately hired attorneys Well this is interesting. Courtesy of Legal Newsline, we see the remarkable claim by Minnesota’s Office of the Attorney General that it has not in fact brought in privately hired attorneys. This was in response to a question […]
The Bloomberg-funded “Special Assistant Attorneys General” planted in progressive AG offices (“embedded,” in the word of the individual noted below) are indeed also using NYU email domains. With the assignment of these “SAAGs” to file and otherwise use their newly acquired authority to help out, climate litigation against energy companies — which as CLW has […]
Third Lawsuit against Minnesota AG Ellison Over Refusal to Release Records re Bloomberg-Funded “Special Assistant AG” Disclosures, Work with Pressure Group MARSHALL, MN – The public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO), has filed a public records lawsuit in Minnesota state court against Attorney General Keith Ellison. This action, the third that the nonprofit […]
Revelation raises questions re disclosure, disqualification, viability of suit A new complication has emerged for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s climate litigation against the American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Koch Industries — already burdened by the appearance of orchestration with outside interest groups, and hints of work-for-tips. CLW now sees information revealing a pre-existing relationship […]