Government Accountability & Oversight
Reminder of Rockefeller Family Fund’s instrumental role in AG abuses The New York Times does its part today to help the flagging NY AG #ExxonKnew case that opens at 2:15 pm today in Manhattan, giving a whopping 1,300 words to The Godfather of the climate litigation industry, Lee Wasserman of Rockefeller Family Foundation (some CLW […]
This post at Energy in Depth on the scandalous political abuse of law enforcement office by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey reminds CLW of another recently produced EMail, one between an AG office and the tort lawyer who recruited Healey’s investigation into his principal target for “climate nuisance” litigation, ExxonMobil. First, we know that Pawa included […]
The below timeline affirms it is acceptable for an AG to launch investigations into, e.g., the renewable energy or climate industry at the request of trial lawyers October 2012: La Jolla meeting proceedings published. Plaintiffs’ attorney Matt Pawa calls for “a single sympathetic attorney general” to begin subpoenaing records of private parties targeted by climate […]
Tort Lawyer Gives Private “What Exxon Knew” Slide Show, AG Announces “What Exxon Knew” Investigation Weeks Later In three previous posts CLW has revealed the Miracle of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office course reversal on what is and what is not privileged from public scrutiny, when confronted with the prospect of defending those claims before […]
What We’ve Learned Re Climate Inquisitor, Bloomberg’s Top Recruiter AG Healey In previous posts, here and here, CLW noted the sudden reversal of the Massachusetts AG Maura Healey’s stonewall of a request to release her application to participate in the NYU State Impact Center’s fellowship program, and related records. The documents, now released, reveal that […]
