The chief of the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice has stepped down instead of looking into a New Green Deal grant network connected to President Biden for potential criminal activity.
The resignation of Cheung is linked to the Justice Department’s efforts to support the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency appointed by President Trump. The agency aims to cancel $20 billion in grants approved by the Biden administration for environmental projects. Two sources, who spoke anonymously, revealed this information.
The EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, stated that the agency intends to cancel contracts related to a developing “green bank” called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. This fund is designed to finance numerous projects that combat climate change and advocate for environmental equality.
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 ) 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.
Criminal Division
Tax Division
AntiTrust Division
Civil Rights Division
Civil Division
Appellate… https://t.co/N3kzrQgO4q
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) February 18, 2025
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 ) 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.
