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‘What Did Keith Ellison Know, and When Did He Know it?’

CLW has long wondered about the utter absence of media curiosity into the ethical and fiduciary implication of public officials providing potentially, spectacularly lucrative ‘contingency fee’ agreements to a law firm already being paid to file the wave of “climate nuisance”, now “failure to warn” lawsuits sweeping progressive jurisdictions across the land.  The rationale behind allowing what are […]

New Biden Admin. Enforcement Attorney Served as Rockefeller ‘Cutout’ in Climate Litigation

Who is Alexandra Klass? President Biden has quietly brought in at least the second member of the “climate” litigation industry into his administration in senior legal positions. Both are academics found to have been using their position at a public university to assist the climate lawsuits. This time it’s a University of Minnesota Law School […]

‘Titanic’ Revelation: DiCaprio Nabs Starring Role in Private Financing of Government ‘Climate’ Lawsuits

Cross-posted from govoversight.org Is this among the millions that foundations are providing to a ‘contingency fee’ tort firm? Did tort firm disclose to politician clients? Did politicians disclose to legislatures and taxpayers? In 2020, information surfaced in IRS Forms 990 filed by the non-profit Resources Legacy Fund (“RLF”) suggesting that the ‘climate nuisance’ and ‘consumer fraud’ lawsuits […]

Minnesota AG Race Becomes Interesting Thanks to Participation in Bloomberg “SAAGs” Scheme

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, a bit less popular now in that rather chaotic state than four years ago, has three Republicans vying for their party’s nomination to take him on. Apparently all of them are committed, if elected, to firing the “Special Assistant Attorneys General” provided Ellison by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg (chronicled in […]

Bloomberg “SAAG” Withdraws from Ellison “Climate” Case She Filed

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 […]