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On 2025-02-28, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Sounds like fraud to me.

Biden granted billions to 'green' org whose top execs gave generously to
Dems
'Coalition' has 'no business receiving a dollar of funding from the
federal government'

<https://www.wnd.com/2025/02/biden-granted-billions-to-green-org-whose-top-execs-gave-generously-to-dems/>

'Top executives of a green organization that the Biden Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected to receive billions in public funds
have collectively made hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal
political donations to Democratic candidates and organizations in recent years, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Federal Election
Commission (FEC) data found.

The Biden EPA chose the Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) as an awardee
of $5 billion in taxpayer funds through the administration's massive Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) program in April 2024. Reed Hundt,
the CGC's former CEO and chairman, has personally donated nearly $60,000
to Democratic candidates and aligned political organizations going back
to 2013, while Richard Kauffman — the group's CEO who replaced Hundt in January — has personally donated more than $600,000 to help Democrats
since 2020, according to FEC data.

Hundt made donations of $10,000 to the Harris Victory Fund and
Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2024, and he also cut a $10,000
check to the Democratic State Central Committee of Maryland in 2016, FEC records show. Kauffman, meanwhile, gave $150,000 to the DNC in 2020
before giving another $20,900 to the DNC in 2024, the same year in which
he made a $50,000 contribution to the Harris Victory Fund, government
records show.

Kaufmann also donated to numerous state-level Democrat Party
organizations and to boost Democrat Senate candidates like former Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey in the 2024 race, FEC records show. Notably,
the CGC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, meaning that it may not directly or indirectly engage in politics, at least as far as the
Internal Revenue Service is currently concerned.

"Between 2009 and 2023, CGC and its network mobilized more than $25
billion in public and private capital across America to deliver more affordable electricity, clean air and water, as well as the power to
help ensure America's AI leadership," a CGC spokesperson said in a
statement to the DCNF. The CGC spokesperson declined to address specific questions about how it squares the political spending of Hundt and
Kauffman, as well as the political connections of other board members,
with the organization's official status as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Hundt formerly worked in the Clinton administration as the chairman of
the Federal Communications Commission and was a close ally of Vice
President Al Gore, while Kauffman was a senior advisor to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu during the Obama administration, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Notably, Hundt's personal account on X featured numerous anti-Trump
posts — including ones endorsing efforts to remove Trump from the ballot — before it was deleted. Hundt did not respond to a request for comment.

The CGC has received funding in the past from left-of-center and environmentalist nonprofits including the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the ClimateWorks Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

The CGC features a number of other Democrat insiders in its ranks, the
DCNF reported in 2023 when the group was rumored to be on the shortlist
for a major EPA payday. For example, its board of directors includes
David Hayes, who served as a climate advisor to former President Joe
Biden; Cecilia Martinez, a former official in the Biden White House
Council on Environmental Quality; Julie Greene Collier, chief of staff
for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial
Organizations (AFL-CIO), a major organized labor federation that
endorsed Biden and, subsequently, former Vice President Kamala Harris in
the 2024 presidential race. The union donated cash to help Democrats in
the 2024 cycle, according to FEC records.

"Coalition for Green Capital, like so many organizations funded by the
Biden Administration, has no business receiving a dollar of funding from
the federal government, much less billions of dollars," Parker Thayer,
an investigative researcher for the Capital Research Center, told the
DCNF. "It is plain to see that the organization is intended to be a
slush fund for bailing out the floundering green energy investments of
the Democratic Party's biggest donors."

Notably, two other groups that the Biden EPA picked to receive billions
of taxpayer dollars — Power Forward Communities and Climate United — are also loaded with Democrat insiders, the DCNF reported previously. The political connections that each of these recipients possess caught the attention of congressional Republicans in May 2024, and current EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is working to claw back as much cash from the
GGRF as possible'

Don't forget 10% for the big guy.


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pothead

Why did Joe Biden pardon his family?
Read below to learn the reason.
The Biden Crime Family Timeline here: https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/

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