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 […]
NJ Climate-suit Contract Emerges
At long last the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General has released to Government Accountability & Oversight its retainer and “contingency” fee agreement with outside climate-plaintiffs law firm Sher Edling to file the Garden State’s entry in the climate sweepstakes. As noted here, earlier this summer a court ordered the Office to do so, but it apparently was considering and […]
Court Unseals Records Providing More Insight into Massachusetts AG ‘SAAGs’
Court unseals OAG Brief, Energy Policy Advocates brief, and Court’s Order in open records case over ‘Bloomberg SAAGs’ The Suffolk County (MA) Superior Court has unsealed records previously withheld in the public records lawsuit Energy Policy Advocates v. Office of the Attorney General, et al. That matter sought to learn more about how MA OAG […]