Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following statement.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch
announced today that she and 18 other Attorneys General have served six
major American banks with civil investigative demands, which act as a
subpoena, asking for documents relating to the companies’ involvement
with the United Nations’ (UN) Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). The
banks include Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan
Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. NZBA-member banks must set
emissions reduction targets in their lending and investment portfolios
to reach net zero by 2050.
“The Net-Zero Banking Alliance’s political agenda does not align with American economic interests,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch. “These banks need to understand that they are accountable to American laws and investors, not UN bureaucrats and UN standards.”
Some of the interrogatories within the civil investigative demands include:
- Describe Your involvement in each Global Climate Initiative in which You participate, including the date You first began participating, any promises, pledges, or other commitments You made to the Global Climate Initiative, or any actions You made or took pursuant to, or consistent with, such commitments, or Your initial or on-going participation, and the employee(s) responsible for managing Your relationship with each Global Climate Initiative.
- Identify the objectives and mission of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and describe how You incorporated these objectives into Your operations.
- Describe the extent to which You have incorporated the Principles for Responsible Banking into Your operations, including but not limited to the extent to which You consulted with other Net-Zero Banking Alliance signatories as part of the incorporation process.
- Describe the extent to which You, as a signatory to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, have acted consistent with Your commitment to “facilitat[e] the necessary transition in the real economy through prioritizing client engagement and offering products and services to support clients’ transition.”
- Describe the extent to which You, as a signatory to the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, have acted consistent with Your commitment to “engag[e] on corporate and industry (financial and real economy) action, as well as public policies, to help support a net-zero transition of economic sectors in line with science and giving consideration to associated social impacts.”
In
addition to Mississippi, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia
have joined the Missouri-led investigation into the six banks.
More information will be made available as the investigation continues.
22 comments:
Wonderful. Basically a class action suit. How about investigating the misappropriation of TANF funds here in Mississppi, Ms. Attorney General?
Get the UN out of the U.S. They have turned woke socialists and are very corrupt, not to mention the spying and industrial espionage their "diplomats" are doing.
What does all this mean in layman's terms? What are they protecting us from?
Wow, no left coast nor east coast states are participating. What a shock.
But Lynn, "the supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to [that of nation states]" See David Rockefeller, Memoirs, p. 405.
I do hope she keeps us posted, and I look forward to swift justice.
Just like Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Peter Strzok, Lois Lerner, Prince Andrew, Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo, no one is above the law!
Crock of shit.
Nothing will come of this.
It's just typical partisan politics.
Politicians will NEVER penalize large financial institutions without some kind of predetermined arrangement or re-imbursement plan with those institutions.
Dog and pony show as always. Mississippi politicians are absolutely worthless to the true needs and concerns of their states
I'm so proud of our Attorney General for staying on top of critical legal issues and knowing when to act. Not just anybody could have rounded up these like-minded AGs.
Fitch signs on to lawsuits sponsored by Republicans. She suffers from FOMO.
"Let's Go Echo"...
"How about investigating the misappropriation of TANF funds here in Mississppi, Ms. Attorney General? "
I wasn't aware any of these six banks handles TANF funds for Mississippi.
The legal genius who thought she had standing to object to the way that Geogia counts its presidential votes is at it again. I'm sure this will be every bit as successful as her lawsuit against China. If you have any spare time, maybe you could do something about long it takes your agency to file a brief in a criminal appeal.
Lynn is such a waste of office space. I feel so stupid voting for her. Lynn personally hasn’t done a damn thing since being in office but take pictures and throw the word Left around in her poor speaking points.
How’s that suit against China coming along?
@1:56 - I’d rather someone competent handle that case. Someone with zero ties to this crooked state government.
She is good with using tax dollars to redecorate her offices in every agency where she's landed over the years.
Wait. I thought Republicans were against government telling private businesses what to do. Besides, Fitch does not have the slightest clue what the lawsuit is about. She just signed where they told her.
King - we need an update on his lawsuit against China. When can we expect our money?
Go get 'em, girl!
“These banks need to understand that they are accountable to American laws..." But that explains what's really going on here.
Banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in America. The problem is the Biden Administration is using that regulatory power (through the FDIC and OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) plus FINRA (the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority which regulates stock markets and indirectly publicly traded companies) to pressure banks to engage in activities and support causes Congress would never require them to do. These causes include not only support for extreme climate change activism (which is often just donations to climate groups that are really Democrat activist groups) but also implementing very aggressive racial/gender/sexual preference affirmative action policies.
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