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According to the Citibank, FBI recommended that the accounts of the recipients freeze the climate casting

New documents in a legal submission of Citibank can shed light on the anti-climate crossing of the Trump government.

In the court registration on Wednesday, the bank said that it had temporarily frozen the accounts of the recipients of the climate shot on the recommendation of the FBI. Citibank said that the Federal Government had informed that the Treenhouse Gas Reduction Fund of the Environmental Protection Agency, which granted the grants, “is subject to an ongoing criminal investigation”. This fund was approved by the Inflation Redutation Act in 2022 and received 27 billion US dollars of funds.

Tech Crunch reported that the FBI asked Citibank to freeze several “non -profit and state government authorities, including Habitat for Humanity, United Way, the Colorado Clean Energy Fund and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

The greenhouse gas reduction fund was approved in 2022 by the law on inflation reduction.

According to Citibank's registration “, the FBI recommended that the accounts” place “with regard to” credible information “of possible criminal violations, including the conspiracy of the fraud of the United States and the business fraud, and the bank added that the EPA administrator Lee Zeldin had asked” to be returned to the scholarship. Made down on Tuesday, announced that the EPA had terminated scholarships of 20 billion US dollars from the greenhouse gas reduction fund.

The Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to MSNBC's request for a comment.

These developments come when the Trump government is trying to deport a legal permanent resident of the United States from the country, apparently about his political activism – concerns about the obvious willingness of the government to use criminal probes and other instruments in a doubtful way that bring in their political opponents in the crosshairs.