Lawmakers demand Bondi's DOJ investigate Biden's post-Election Day dismissal of green energy fraud lawsuit

EXCLUSIVE: Republican lawmakers are calling connected the Trump administration to analyse President Biden's dismissal of a suit claiming millions successful fraud from a greenish vigor task the time aft the 2024 election.

In 2011, President Barack Obama's Treasury Department granted Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC hundreds of millions of dollars for the operation of a greenish vigor star plant, the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, successful Nevada.

However, the vigor radical was yet sued by CMB Export, LLC for alleged fraud involving astir $275 cardinal of payer dollars successful a qui tam lawsuit, which is simply a lawsuit connected behalf of the authorities claiming fraud against national programs. The lawsuit was being investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ), until the Biden medication filed a question to disregard the suit connected Nov. 6, 2024 – the time aft the statesmanlike election.

In a missive to Attorney General Pam Bondi, obtained archetypal by Fox News Digital, Republican Reps. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and Carol Miller, R-W.Va., are sounding the alarm implicit the erstwhile administration's determination to halt the imaginable betterment of payer funds.

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Rep. Lance Gooden participates successful the House Judiciary Committee organizing gathering successful the Rayburn House Office Building. (Bill Clark)

"Despite investing 3 and a fractional years successful investigating this case, it is profoundly troubling that the DOJ reversed its presumption soon aft the statesmanlike election, claiming the dismissal was successful nationalist involvement and citing undue burdens connected national agencies," the missive reads. "This determination is perplexing, fixed that the authorities stands to suffer thing by allowing CMB Export, LLC, to proceed with the case."

The missive asks that Bondi analyse the Biden administration's rationale for dismissal, imaginable conflicts of interest, timeline of events, and accountability regarding the imaginable misuse of payer funds.

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"The American radical soundly rejected the Biden administration's extremist Green New Deal docket and fraudulent coverups erstwhile they voted for President Trump," Miller told Fox News Digital. "Our knowing is the Crescent Dunes task was an energy proposal that cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, produced little vigor than promised, and posed information concerns for individuals moving connected the project. With President Trump backmost successful the White House, transparency is present the modular for the national government."

Pam Bondi, is sworn successful earlier the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation proceeding astatine the Capitol, Jan. 15, 2025. (Ben Curtis/AP Photo)

Biden's DOJ claimed the dismissal was "commensurate with the nationalist interest," and that litigation obligations would enforce "an undue burden" connected the government, 2 claims that are being called into question successful the caller letter.

The missive asks if determination is immoderate grounds that the timing of the question was politically influenced, coming close aft the predetermination loss, and if the DOJ’s determination to disregard a lawsuit that seeks to retrieve payer dollars conflicts with its work to uphold accountability successful cases of alleged fraud against the government.

"The allegations successful this lawsuit correspond not conscionable imaginable fiscal fraud but a breach of nationalist trust," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "The Crescent Dunes project, similar different failed ‘green energy’ initiatives, has already outgo taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, and the dismissal of this lawsuit raised superior concerns astir the erstwhile administration’s committedness to protecting nationalist funds and prosecuting fraud."

Attorney General Merrick Garland astatine the Department of Justice connected May 2, 2023, successful Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The lawmakers asked that the DOJ behaviour an interior probe into the case, and upon reevaluation, see allowing CMB Export, LLC, to proceed its complaint against the star company.

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"The American radical merit accountability and transparency successful however their taxation dollars are used, particularly successful cases involving allegations of fraud connected specified a important scale," the missive reads.