Nineteen states, led by Missouri AG Eric Schmitt, are investigating Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo for putting UN (BS) Net Zero ESG banking goals ahead of American laws.
Related: Sen. Tom Cotton: CEOs Embracing ESG Might Want to Lawyer Up!
Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other businesses that are vital to Missouri’s and America’s economy will be unable to get a loan because of this alliance,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “We are leading a coalition investigating banks for ceding authority to the U.N., which will only result in the killing of American companies that don’t subscribe to the woke, climate agenda. These banks are accountable to American laws — we don’t let international bodies set the standards for our businesses.”
This effort follows in the footsteps of Sen Tom Cotton, who made it clear in July that CEOs and banks, in particular, who embrace ESG may be in breach of their fiduciary duties, violating civil trust laws, with the potential for criminal offenses. So, it is not difficult to see why state Attorneys General might want to get into the weeds in the interest of protecting legitimate businesses that would be unfairly impacted by a globalist cult trying to supersede US Law.
The interrogatories in the civil investigative demands are extensive and detailed. They seek to identify the specific commitments the banks made to Global Climate Initiatives, who decided to make them, and details of the staff’s participation in meetings related to the NZBA. Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia have joined the investigation into the six banks. Five additional states can’t be named due to state laws or regulations regarding confidentiality.
I guess we can’t answer the question asked in the title, but maybe you can work it out for yourselves? My governor plays the “all of the above” energy card to hide how much of a climate stooge he truly is, so I doubt we are one of those five. But that leaves a lot of states from which to choose. Maybe one of them is yours, but you’ll have to do local digging to figure it out.
Just let us know if you do. We want to give credit where it’s due, and since the state’s pushing back is about the only hope we have left for the Republic (Obi-Wan Kenobi), we’d like to encourage it as much as possible.
HT | PJ Media
