The United States Attorney’s Office in Washington, District of Columbia, received an order to launch a criminal investigation into climate-related contracts under the Biden administration, which prompted a key prosecutor to then reportedly resign on Tuesday.
The interim United States Attorney Ed Martin received a letter of resignation from Denise Cheung, who was the head of the criminal division at the District of Columbia office.
There is a strong belief that the probe that Cheung mentioned is a component of an endeavor by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to recoup at least twenty billion dollars’ worth of green energy contracts that were awarded during the last weeks of the administration of Vice President Joe Biden.
Despite its name, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act is widely regarded as a piece of legislation that is primarily focused on green energy and climate change.
The monies that Zeldin detected were discovered in a Citibank account and were marked to be dispersed in accordance with the act.
Zeldin has expressed his desire to have those payments from the taxpayers reclaimed and returned to the Treasury of the United States.
Zeldin stated that his organization would collaborate with the Department of Justice in order to retrieve the monies in a statement that was released to announce the discovery.
The letter that Cheung sent stated that she “took point” on a letter that she had sent to Citibank demanding that the assets be frozen.
However, she refused to comply with an instruction that Martin had given her to take more stringent measures to ensure that the monies remain in place.
According to Zeldin, the twenty billion dollars in funding were a waste of money because they were distributed to eight “pass throughs” that were then going to distribute the money to other pass through groups.
[READ MORE: Fox Star Katie Pavlich Refers to Medhi Hasan as a ‘Terrorist’]
