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A Circuit Court in Richmond, VA on Tuesday ordered the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Virginia to conduct a proper search for emails and other records requested by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and attorney Christopher Horner three and a half years ago under the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The court ruled that CEI and Horner presented evidence that the OAG failed to properly search for official documents responsive to FOIA requests made in September and October of 2018, when former VA Attorney General Mark Herring was in office. CEI and Horner requested the documents while investigating a legally and ethically suspect agreement between Herring’s OAG and a nonprofit housed at the New York University (NYU) Law School to place donor-funded attorneys on Herring’s staff to prosecute cases related to climate change.
Much of the evidence prompting the court’s ruling was obtained when, following threads exposed during discovery in this litigation, Horner made other requests, yielding other emails from the same Office showing that it indeed improperly withheld documents, as a result of its conducting a curiously limited search of email accounts.
Horner revealed the nation-wide scheme to place donor-funded NYU law school attorneys in OAGs including Virginia, Massachusetts, Oregon, California and other states in an August 2018 report for CEI titled *Law Enforcement for Rent: How Special Interests Fund Climate Policy through State Attorneys General*. In 2019 and 2021, the Virginia legislature restricted funds appropriated to OAG, precluding the attempt by NYU Law School and Herring’s OAG to hire donor-funded attorneys to pursue a partisan agenda.
“Virginians should be grateful to the court for holding the Office of the Attorney General accountable for its obligations under the Freedom of Information Act and we look forward to receiving and reviewing the documents. We hope Attorney General Jason Miyares will ensure Virginians know the extent to which his predecessor empowered partisan interests to use OAG to further a political agenda,” said Horner. “Virginians and all Americans should expect their prosecutors to uphold and comply with the law and former AG Herring and other attorneys general were wrong to bring partisan politics into prosecutors’ offices.”
Related:
- Richmond Court Sides with CEI on VA Attorney General’s Improper Motion to Dismiss Freedom of Information Lawsuit
- Virginia Legislature Restricts Privately-Funded State Legal Staff
- CEI Report Details Campaign to Privately Fund State Attorney General Offices to Advance Climate Change Legal Positions
NYU Stern School of Business accounting professor who on Thursday called allegations against Donald Trump “absurd” was paid “nearly $900,000” in legal fees by the former president’s defense, the Guardian reports.
NYU economics professor Eli Bartov on Thursday testified that Deutsche Bank “knew what they were doing” when they decided to lend Trump "hundreds of millions of dollars in loans … based solely on allegedly inflated financial statements,” Bloomberg reports. Bartov told the court it’s “absurd to argue that Deutsche Bank or any bank or any lender would make lending decision based on a statement of financial condition."
Bartov was testifying for Trump’s defense in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ fraud cause against the former president. James “claims Trump exaggerated the value of his assets by billions of dollars a year to get better interest rates from banks,” according to Bloomberg.
Eli Bartov, who’s making $1,350 an hour working on the case for Trump, testified Thursday in Manhattan that he did not believe Deutsche Bank AG or other Trump lenders would have made decisions … based solely on his allegedly inflated financial statements.
In one exchange, Bartov was asked about “the value of Trump’s Manhattan triplex apartment” which “nearly tripled from $80m to $180m in one year," the Guardian reports.
According to Bartov’s “reading of the documents,” there was “no evidence here of concealment,” according the Guardian's account of Bartov's testimony.
“It’s true this is an error,” Bartov said on the stand. “But it is no fraud.”
Bartov also argued that Trump’s auditors “had a duty to spot the errors,” according to the Guardian.
“My analysis shows the statements of financial condition for all the years were not materially misstated,” the professor said.
Bartov likewise told prosecutors in “[his] opinion,” the case has no merit.
Confronted by a lawyer from the state, who argued Bartov was espousing “pure speculation from someone hired to say whatever it is they want,” Bartov rebelled.
“You should be ashamed of yourself talking to me like that!” Bartov shouted. “I’m here to tell the truth. You ought to be ashamed of yourself!” ... “I feel so bad I had to spend so much time on this engagement,” Bartov testified. “There was no justification for any of these allegations.”
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Welcome back to HEATED, a newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis—written by me, Emily Atkin.
A new anti-climate leader
Dan Bongino, a climate denier who spread the Texas wind energy lie, is gearing up to take Rush Limbaugh's place today.
Emily Atkin May 24
Dan Bongino at Fox News Channel Studios on June 18, 2019 in New York City. Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images.
Rush Limbaugh’s death in February left a deep hole where some of America’s most influential climate disinformation used to be. That hole will start being filled today, as far-right Fox News pundit Dan Bongino steps in to take Limbaugh’s place.
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Donald Trump to Be First Guest on Bongino's Show, Expect a Powerful Debut Episode in Limbaugh's Old Time Slot
Dan Bongino will begin a new chapter of conservative talk radio Monday with former President Donald Trump as his first guest.
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Bongino, who in 2018 declared his life mission as “owning the libs,” is already an popular purveyor of general disinformation.His Facebookpage, The Bongino Report, regularly boosts false claims of election fraud, among other things.
Though the page only has about 135,000 followers, these posts “consistently land among the site’s top posts and outperform mainstream news outlets like The New York Times, CNN and Fox News,” reports Forbes. That’s in part because Facebook’s algorithim rewards misleading content from conservative creators, as Wired reported in March:
According to researchers at the Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, far-right purveyors of misinformation have by far the highest levels of engagement per follower compared to any other category of news source. Indeed, the researchers found that while left-leaning and centrist publications get much less engagement if they publish misinformation, the relationship is reversed on the far right, where news organizations that regularly publish false material get up to 65 percent more engagement than ones that don’t.
Bongino is about to be rewarded even further with his new radio show. Though it’s yet unclear exactly how many of the 600 stations that once ran Limbaugh’s show will pick up Bongino’s, the opportunity to pick up some of Limbaugh’s 15 million regular listeners is large. In addition, earlier this month, Fox News also announced that it would start airing a new show on Saturday nights lead by Bongino, called “The Big Saturday Show.”
Bongino is thus well-positioned to soon become one of the most influential sources of right-wing disinformation in America. Here’s what we can expect on climate front.
Less flagrant denial, more insulting liberals
Bongino is a straight-up climate denier, and for the most part, is not particularly shy about it. “These climate change alarmists have been wrong about just about everything. All their charts have been debunked,” he said on Fox in 2019. “The climate’s been relatively stable. There’s not any evidence that storms are out of control. All this stuff is made up.”
But just like the fossil fuel industry, Bongino’s anti-climate policy talking points lately have moved further away from flagrant denial. Instead, they promote more insidious falsehoods— like that wind energy was a significant contributor to deadly blackouts in Texas following February’s deep freeze, and that liberals were trying to cover it up.
Bongino delved into that subject specifically for a February episode of his podcast, which he began by strongly defending the quality of his own information regarding “What really happened with Texas and the energy system failures there.” “I never want to be first if I don’t have the facts,” he said. “I’m tired of the lies.”
Bongino went on to disparage “These filthy people on the left who can never ever tell the truth,” like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, who he called a “sick little turd” for debunking Texas Republican officials’ prolific claims that wind energy was the culprit of Texas’s woes. Bongino did admit that natural gas and nuclear energy failed as well. But he said wind turbines had failed, too, and the only reason liberals were mad that Republicans were pointing it out was because they had to “protect their golden calf.”
He said liberals were taking “advantage of an ongoing tragedy to score cheap political points,” and added: “The hacks at Facebook and soviet fact-checkers will ding this segment because the facts trouble them.”
In reality, the blackouts in Texas were caused not by any particular power source, but by Texas’s failure to prepare for climate change-fueled extreme weather. In order to protect their “golden calf”—fossil fuels—Republican officials publicly sought to place the majority of the blame for Texas’s blackouts on wind reliability. Practically every major news outlet in the country debunked that lie, an attempt to use a tragedy to score political points.
Still, Bongino adopted wholesale the argument made by the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which was that the only reason nuclear and gas failed during the deep freeze was because it was trying to make up for the gaps in wind power. Ironically, that editorial was debunked by the journal’s own news section.
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Texas’ utter failure to winterize — despite a freeze and rolling blackouts 10 years ago — makes the choice of particular energy sources irrelevant. Their whole system is going down across the board!
This happens when you only pursue short-term cost cuts, don’t invest in safety.
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Green New Deal-bashing, arguments for human dominion
Here are some other trademark Bongino climate claims that we can expect to proliferate on conservative talk radio and Fox News as his profile continues to rise:
People who compare the challenge of climate change to World War II are participating in the “Moron Olympics.”
The Green New Deal is “outrageous,” “ridiculous,” and “expensive.” It looks “like it was conceived by a high schooler” and “proofread by a bartender.” It’s also not actually about climate change at all. It’s a “bad joke.”
“The climate changes all the time. Temperatures have been flat for 18 years.”
“We should care about the environment. It’s the right thing to do, if you’re really a God-loving person. But God gave us the world, not the other way around.”
“The Left is the one destroying their own credibility. Because ironically there are a lot of Republicans, me included, who are absolutely open to a conversation about a cleaner, better future, just not with a bunch of lunatics telling me the world is going to blow up.”
Moving forward, it’ll be interesting to see which advertisers are willing to sponsor claims like these. Bongino’s interview with Trump airs at noon EST. So, you know. Right now.
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Protestors from NYU Divest have temporarily halted their occupation of the NYU’s Administrative Elevator upon news that the University has divested its direct holdings in Anadarko Petroleum and Noble Energy
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NYU Divest is a welcoming organization with lateral leadership that is sustained by participation and input from new members. Latest News Contacts: Olivia Rich obr211@nyu.edu Sarah Singh ss8131@nyu.edu NYU DROPPED DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN ANADARKO PETROLEUM AND NOBLE ENERGY
On Board With Divestment. On Board With Divestment is an initiative launched in Spring of 2017 to lessen the anonymity of our Trustees and move NYU towards more accessible and responsive governance. Through direct communication with Trustees, we will hold the Board accountable to the University Senate and the University community's decision to divest NYU from climate change.
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Decarbonize NYU is a subcampaign of NYU Divest working to align NYU's climate mitigation initiatives with the imperatives of Climate and Environmental Justice, and to extend NYU's ambition beyond emissions reductions towards the just transition to 100% renewable energy.. The President and the Vice President of Sustainability at NYU are currently thinking about how to make NYU a green urban ...
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NYU Divest and Occupies Bobst Administrative Elevator . OCCUPATION OVER BOARD OF TRUSTEES' FOSSIL FUEL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. NEW YORK- DEC. 1, 2017 - Twelve NYU students and alumni filed into NYU's Administrative Elevator in Bobst Library this morning and are refusing to leave until their demands are met. NYU Divest's action is the ...
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NYU has an endowment of almost 5 billion dollars. It is their responsibility to invest it responsibility, this means growing the endowment and investing in ways that are consistent with the values they profess. NYU's current investments in fossil fuel companies and private prisons are destructive and irresponsible. It's time to Divest!
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NYU Divest. 2,206 likes. We are students, faculty, and alumni calling on NYU to divest from the fossil fuel industry and go 100% renewable....
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October 18, 2021 Sunrise Movement NYU, the local chapter of a nationwide student-led climate justice group, is launching a renewed Divest NYU campaign that aims to pressure the NYU administration into ending its investments in fossil fuels and private prisons. The campaign's first Rally for Divestment was held Oct. 15.
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Why Divest? 30 Years Since South Africa: Tell NYU to Divest for Human Equality Once More! NYU is an institution committed to freedom and equality of opportunity in all aspects of social, economic, cultural, and academic life. Our university has established a precedent of commitment to social justice in 1985, when it divested from companies ...
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Divest, a student activist group focused on ending NYU's investment in fossil fuels, had spend 33 hours occupying Bobst Library's executive elevator — the only elevator that is capable of accessing the university's administrative offices, located on the library's 11th and 12th floors.
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NYU Divest: Go Fossil Free! , a coalition of students, faculty, and alumni looking to end the university's investments in fossil fuel companies, has been gaining momentum on campus. With the...
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Divest NYU Demand Action We are in the midst of a campaign to end NYU's active support of those destroying the Earth. Actions speak louder than words and their refusal to divest from destructive companies is loud and clear. We are demanding better. Learn more about our campaign and how we are making NYU live up to its rhetoric.
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NYU Divest, an organization comprising current students, faculty, and alumni, initiated its "No Divestment, No Donations" campaign this past weekend—NYU's Alumni Weekend, which targets the university's most productive group of donors. Currently, over 115 members of the NYU community have signed the pledge.
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2) To divest NYU from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within five years. We are asking, specifically, that NYU divest from the...
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They insisted on three demands: that the Board take a new vote under student supervision and divest from fossil fuels; that a student be placed on the Board of Trustees; and that the Board make itself available for a town hall meeting to be run by NYU Divest. Throughout the week of April 2nd, they were warned about the consequences.
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Last week on December 1, 18 students and alumni began occupying the New York University's (NYU) Administrative Elevator in Bobst Library in protest of the school's unwillingness to divest from ...
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In a press release, NYU Divest characterized the Working Group's statement as misleading. NYU Divest stated that many of the Working Group's arguments against divestment were met with skepticism from the University Senators, clarified that the measure has not been put to a vote, and expressed hope that the full University senate would make ...