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Billionaire environmental extremist Tom Steyer appears to be the new owner of the New York State Attorney General’s office.
What did it cost the California-based hedge fund mogul to make New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a pawn in his plan to vilify ExxonMobil and ramp up global warming hysteria? Apparently, it was the prospect of campaign contributions.
Public records indicate the AG launched a climate change investigation targeting ExxonMobil while he was urging Steyer to help fund his planned 2018 campaign for governor.
The troubling twist is just the latest chapter in an environmentalist-funded action against ExxonMobil carried out by state AGs and funded by wealthy environmentalists.
Over the past two years, Schneiderman steered liberal attorneys general from across the U.S. to form “AGs United for Clean Power” and launch probes against ExxonMobil in hopes of bringing racketeering and fraud charges.
The probes were the byproduct of an admitted plan to produce hit pieces against ExxonMobil concocted by the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and journalists and media outlets pocketing money from the two Rockefeller foundations.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and InsideClimate News weaved together decades-old statements out of context to form a story that made it appear as if ExxonMobil hid information about the risks of climate change in the late 1970s.
Documents later released by ExxonMobil prove the Rockefeller-funded reports were fabrications. The stories also failed to mention the company’s honest attempts to understand the environmental impacts of fossil fuels or ExxonMobil’s involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Still, Schneiderman and his band of AGs based their investigations on the reports funded by environmental extremist front groups – apparently at the behest of Steyer.
As the probes began, Steyer began pouring money into rallies in support of the AGs through his political action committee, NextGen Climate Action. An examination by the Washington Free Beacon uncovered that NextGen “repeatedly promoted the effort and attempted to enlist federal and state officials in efforts to bring charges against Exxon.” NextGen also helped to fund, and was featured prominently in, an anti-ExxonMobil Facebook advertising campaign called #ExxonKnew.
Clearly, Steyer’s fingerprints are all over the ExxonMobil investigations.
As Schneiderman was launching his probe into ExxonMobil, he attempted to arrange a meeting with Steyer. The Empire State AG hoped the meeting would be an opportunity to shake the billionaire down for campaign contributions for his planned gubernatorial run, records show. A March 10 email from Schneiderman’s office to Steyer’s stated, “Eric Schneiderman would like to have a call with Tom regarding support for his race for governor ... regarding Exxon case.”
After that email leaked, the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic – a nonprofit organization devoted to holding government accountable – filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking correspondence between Schneiderman’s office and Steyer, as well as representatives of the Rockefeller Family Fund, leading up to and immediately after the announcement of AG’s legal examination into ExxonMobil.
Schneiderman refused the request on the preposterous basis that “disclosure of the requested records would interfere with the attorney general’s law enforcement powers.” In reality, it appears that Schneiderman wouldn’t turn over the documents because he didn’t want to public to know what he’d been up to.
Was New York's attorney general bought by an environmentalist billionaire?
What did it cost the California-based hedge fund mogul to make New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman a pawn in his plan to vilify ExxonMobil and ramp up global warming hysteria? Apparently, it was the prospect of campaign contributions.
Public records indicate the AG launched a climate change investigation targeting ExxonMobil while he was urging Steyer to help fund his planned 2018 campaign for governor.
The troubling twist is just the latest chapter in an environmentalist-funded action against ExxonMobil carried out by state AGs and funded by wealthy environmentalists.
Over the past two years, Schneiderman steered liberal attorneys general from across the U.S. to form “AGs United for Clean Power” and launch probes against ExxonMobil in hopes of bringing racketeering and fraud charges.
The probes were the byproduct of an admitted plan to produce hit pieces against ExxonMobil concocted by the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and journalists and media outlets pocketing money from the two Rockefeller foundations.
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and InsideClimate News weaved together decades-old statements out of context to form a story that made it appear as if ExxonMobil hid information about the risks of climate change in the late 1970s.
Documents later released by ExxonMobil prove the Rockefeller-funded reports were fabrications. The stories also failed to mention the company’s honest attempts to understand the environmental impacts of fossil fuels or ExxonMobil’s involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Still, Schneiderman and his band of AGs based their investigations on the reports funded by environmental extremist front groups – apparently at the behest of Steyer.
As the probes began, Steyer began pouring money into rallies in support of the AGs through his political action committee, NextGen Climate Action. An examination by the Washington Free Beacon uncovered that NextGen “repeatedly promoted the effort and attempted to enlist federal and state officials in efforts to bring charges against Exxon.” NextGen also helped to fund, and was featured prominently in, an anti-ExxonMobil Facebook advertising campaign called #ExxonKnew.
Clearly, Steyer’s fingerprints are all over the ExxonMobil investigations.
As Schneiderman was launching his probe into ExxonMobil, he attempted to arrange a meeting with Steyer. The Empire State AG hoped the meeting would be an opportunity to shake the billionaire down for campaign contributions for his planned gubernatorial run, records show. A March 10 email from Schneiderman’s office to Steyer’s stated, “Eric Schneiderman would like to have a call with Tom regarding support for his race for governor ... regarding Exxon case.”
After that email leaked, the Free Market Environmental Law Clinic – a nonprofit organization devoted to holding government accountable – filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking correspondence between Schneiderman’s office and Steyer, as well as representatives of the Rockefeller Family Fund, leading up to and immediately after the announcement of AG’s legal examination into ExxonMobil.
Schneiderman refused the request on the preposterous basis that “disclosure of the requested records would interfere with the attorney general’s law enforcement powers.” In reality, it appears that Schneiderman wouldn’t turn over the documents because he didn’t want to public to know what he’d been up to.
Was New York's attorney general bought by an environmentalist billionaire?
