The head of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division has resigned rather than investigate a Biden-sponsored New Green Deal grant network for possible criminal behavior. Denise Cheung announced her departure to staff with an email saying, “This office is a special place. I took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, and I have executed this duty faithfully.”
Cheung’s resignation came in connection with a Justice Department effort to assist President Donald Trump’s new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who said last week that he would try to rescind $20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean energy projects, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on X that the agency would seek to revoke contracts for a still-emerging “green bank,” known as the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, that is set to fund tens of thousands of projects to fight climate change and promote environmental justice.
The people said Cheung and interim U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. disagreed over whether she was delaying efforts to order a financial institution to halt spending transfers pending further investigation, or seeking to reach a compromise by taking steps she believed were ethical and appropriate. On Monday, Martin called Cheung, yelling at her for failing to do what acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove’s office had asked, one person said, although a second person contradicted that account, saying their exchanges were blunt but professional.
The Justice Department has the authority to freeze assets, but it can take that step only when it has evidence suggesting the assets can be traced to a crime.
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was to funnel about $26 billion to the United Climate Fund and Climate Justice Alliance. This grant was funded in August 2024 to the tune of $20.3 billion, again in October for $4.3 billion, with the final tranche of $2 billion landing in December 2024/January 2025; see the details here. These were all part of the Biden "throwing gold bars off the Titanic" (see EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Finds the $20 Billion 'Gold Bars' the Biden Administration Tried to Jettison – RedState) plan where immense amounts of grant funding would be "parked" in leftist 501(c)3 corporations that were supposed to continue to run beneath the radar even after Trump had taken office.
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To be clear, Cheung was going to lose her job anyway. She was one of the top-tier political appointees at the Department of Justice.
All the Division "Chiefs" -- actually Assistant Attorney Geenrals -- will resign. They are all political appointees and Trump nominees will take their place over the next month.
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 18, 2025
Criminal Division
Tax Division
AntiTrust Division
Civil Rights Division
Civil Division
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Resigning in a way that hints at being told to do something illegal builds on the narrative of Trump's Department of Justice operating outside the law (see I'm Your Huckleberry: The Showdown at the DOJ Corral Is Bigger Than the NYC Mayor's Corruption Charges) and increases her market value to whichever leftist law firm that snaps her up.
What is notable about this is that the Department of Justice is looking at the last-minute grants for fraud, and unless Mr. Magoo is leading the investigation, they will find it.
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