The US House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has opened an investigation into George Mason professor Jagadish Shukla, “the lead signatory of a now-vanished letter recommending the federal government use RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] laws to prosecute skeptics of anthropogenic climate change.”
Back on September 20, The College Fix reported on how twenty climate scientists and professors had written a letter to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s John Holdren asking them to utilize RICO against “corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.”
The head of the Institute of Global Environment and Society, Shukla — along with his wife and daughter (who together make up three-fourths of the IGES’s staff) — has raked in $5.6 million from the government since 2001.
The Corner’s Ian Tuttle notes that
According to chairman Lamar Smith (R., Tex.), the committee has “serious concerns because IGES appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama Administration on climate change.”
The full House Committee’s letter.
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