cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26743463
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.”
“The FBI has told Citibank that recipients of EPA climate grants are being considered as potentially liable for fraud. That is, the Trump administration wants to criminalize work on climate science and impacts,” the @capitolhunters account wrote Wednesday on X. “An incoming administration not only cancels federal grants but declares recipients as criminals. All these grantees applied under government calls FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WORK, were reviewed and accepted. Trump wants to jail them.“
The Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, the Coalition for Green Capital, and the DC Green Bank are just some of the nonprofits being targeted.
“This is not fraud. This is targeted harassment,” @capitolhunters continued. “The idea of criminalizing community climate work wouldn’t have originated at the FBI—it likely comes from EPA director Lee Zeldin, who today cut all EPA’s environmental justice offices, which try to reduce pollution in poor and minority communities.”
Zeldin’s order eliminates 10 EPA regional offices as well as the headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Start preparing for trouble, because its going to get a LOT worse before it gets better. The odds of getting out of this without violence are a shrinking by the day.
Luckily, the HitlerPig administration hasn’t figured out that replacing all the competent leaders with knuckle-dragging Pakleds means that the opposition has all the brains and knowledge, while MAGA only has people who truly believe their own propaganda. In addition, there are still thousands of government workers who are seething at what has happened to their careers, thrir agrncies, their work, and especially their colleagues. MANY of them will be willing moles for leaks, sabotage, quiet quitting, malicious compliance, etc.
When it finally kicks off, the people will have the true leadership on their side. All MAGA has is an incompetent ignorant tyrant. Once he’s gone, MAGA will melt like tears in the rain.