Government Accountability & Oversight
IL, NY, MD AGs cited as having worked behind the scenes to make the donor-funded law enforcement reality CLW spotted this video from September 2017 hiding in broad daylight. It records an event that came less than two weeks after numerous state attorneys general submitted applications for privately hired “Special Assistant Attorneys General” — as […]
Contradicts other states, none of whose AG claimed applications for Bloomberg group resources are privileged; Sides with OAG claim that lawyers paid six figures by activist donor to work in OAG are ‘Pro Bono’ Open records productions have shown these applications stated how the donor’s resources would be used. For example, Virginia’s OAG vowed “to […]
Yesterday CLW noted an article in the Daily Caller touting some Republican AG criticism of billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg’s scheme to privately hire and promote the work of activist attorneys as “Special Assistant Attorneys General”, so long as they were tasked with pushing Bloomberg’s desired (policy) agenda. The article also amplified about the disparity […]
Media mogul, climate activist and financier of the climate litigation industry Michael Bloomberg recently announced his candidacy for President of the United States. At the same time, a memo leaked about Bloomberg News’s plans to cover the Presidential election (or, in part, to not cover it). As laid out in a WaPo headline: Bloomberg News will […]
CLW has noticed an apparent conflict in the stories being told by the Bloomberg-funded State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (SEEIC) and its New York AG partner — or erstwhile partner, hard to tell — in the climate litigation industry. NYU has a web page admitting to which AG offices which have taken NYU’s dare […]