This interesting document is then-Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro’s Application seeking Michael Bloomberg-provided “Special Assistant Attorneys General” (and accompanying full-time PR staff out of DC to support cooperative AGs). These in-kind gifts privately underwrite government execution of donor priorities (a practice that’s caught on and expanded among progressive funders and elected officials, across the land after […]
Attorneys General Correspondence About Bloomberg/ State Impact Center
Connect(icut)-ing the Dots: Email provides further hints about propriety of FOI Commission’s “Spontaneous and Unexplained Reversal”
What’s ‘Due Process’? Email shows FOI Commission all on the same “Teams” Possibly explains bizarre flip-flop after AG implied tough times ahead for errant FOI Commissions As CLW readers recall, CT OAG not only sought (and got) a Bloomberg-provided activist attorney to help drive the donor’s agenda through the public’s office, but then filed suit […]
VA OAG FOIA Litigation re Bloomberg Scheme Heads to Discovery
There has been a development in Horner et al. v Herring. That is the lawsuit filed under Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act seeking whatever analysis, opinion or any other record led to the Virginia Office of Attorney General offering the stunning conclusion that it possesses the legal authority to bring in a Michael Bloomberg-funded prosecutor, […]
Hide the Opine — Something Rotten in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office?
Last week saw a remarkable turn of events in the campaign to stop the public from knowing just how elected law enforcement offices have come to be used by the Climate Litigation Industry, to promote a campaign pushed by plaintiffs’ lawyers, activists and major political donors. On behalf of CEI, on January 17, 2019, GAO’s […]
After the Fact, After Getting Caught: Oregon AG Office Issues first determination claiming legality of Bloomberg-financed Special Climate Prosecutors, contrary to public and private assessments to the contrary
On September 15, 2017, the Oregon Office of Attorney General certified, to a non-profit group serving as the pass-through for billionaire Michale Bloomberg’s “climate” legal advocacy campaign, that it had the statuary authority to bring on a special prosecutor, funded by Bloomberg, to pursue issues of interest to Bloomberg. ATTACHED SAAG APPLICATION On September 11, […]