Montpelier, VT - This morning, former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell ignored rules of civil procedure and failed to appear for a properly noticed deposition to take his testimony regarding his use of private email accounts to conduct state business. The case is about uncovering a scheme, revealed by public records requests, involving multiple state [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Foundation A federal judge ordered a former Vermont attorney general to testify about his use of private emails in an investigation targeting oil producers after the Democratic official refused to appear in court for a deposition hearing addressing the probe. Judge Mary Teachout, who serves on the Vermont Superior [...]
Burlington, VT- After a court order, nearly a year of legal wrangling and constant stonewalling about records relating to former Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell's involvement in the scandalous climate-RICO cabal exposed by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), Sorrell has now defied the Court order joining him to the lawsuit and refused to [...]
by Matthew Hardin, FME Law Counsel E&E Legal first sued the Vermont Attorney General in June of 2016, seeking records related to that Office's role in organizing a "climate-RICO" cabal among activist attorneys general, and private activists, targeting political opponents. Ordinarily, in public records suits, the law allows for a speedy resolution, because the law [...]
by Michael Bielawski True North Reports After a yearlong court battle against a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, the Vermont attorney general’s office says it has no records to turn over relating to a multi-state investigation of groups opposed to climate change policies. Attorney General TJ Donovan’s office on Monday sent a letter to the Energy and Environment [...]
by Elizabeth Hewitt VT Digger After fighting for a year not to release documents to a Washington-based nonprofit, the Vermont attorney general’s office now says there are no relevant records. Chief Assistant Attorney General Bill Griffin responded late Monday to a July court order that the state turn over records relevant to a request by [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Vermont’s attorney general (AG) denied the existence of email documents showing the state’s involvement in a month’s long probe targeting fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group reported Tuesday. Vermont’s AG office told E&E legal attorney Matthew Hardin during a court hearing Monday night that the state’s chief law enforcers [...]
Washington, D.C. – Last night, the Vermont Office of Attorney General (OAG) outdid itself in the latest episode of the Needlessly Endless Saga of the Exposed Climate-RICO Scheme. At 7:37 pm of its last day to produce records under court order, OAG informed the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) — after 11 months of [...]
Washington, D.C. – A study published by Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes has made clear that the investigations by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and his "Green 20" coalition of state AGs — a scheme first exposed by E&E Legal in documents obtained under open records requests, and now the subject of multiple lawsuits over [...]
by Chris White The Daily Caller Vermont is refusing to comply with a court order forcing officials to release communications about the state’s supposed involvement in a climate inquisition against fossil fuel groups, a conservative legal group said Monday. Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan denied conservative group E&E Legal’s request for communication between former Attorney [...]
