Given how CEI has so proudly specialized in harassing scientists with bogus FOIA assaults, this is especially fitting.
The subpoena:
https://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI Subpoena from USVI AG Claude Walker April 7 2016.pdf
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ExxonMobil is suspected to have engaged in, or be engaging in, conduct constituting a civil violation of the Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 14 V.I.C. § 605, by having engaged or engaging in conduct misrepresenting its knowledge of the likelihood that its products and activities have contributed and are continuing to contribute to Climate Change in order to defraud the Government of the United States Virgin Islands ("the Government") and consumers in the Virgin Islands, in violation of 14 V.I.C.§ 834 (prohibiting obtaining money by false pretenses) and 14 V.I.C. § 551 (prohibiting conspiracy to obtain money by false pretenses).
In relation to the Government's investigation of the above matter, YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED, by the authority granted to the Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands ("USVI"), pursuant to the provisions of 14 V.I.C. § 612, to produce and deliver the documents responsive to the inquiries set forth herein, on or before April 30, 2016, directed to the attention of Attorney General Claude Earl Walker, Esq.
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Documents required:
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1. All Documents and Communications
sent to or received from ExxonMobil, or third parties acting on behalf of ExxonMobil, concerning Climate Change, including strategies to address Climate Change or impact public views on Climate Change.
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And the list goes on, detailing how anything that has anything to do with ExxonMobil has to be turned over.
Consistency not being their strong points, deniers will howl about how unust this is, even though CEI spent years doing the same thing.
And once the emails are turned over, deniers will ignore most of them, and only post a few cherrypicked bits that prove CEI's innocence. And they'll all claim to have read all the emails, even though they'll actually only have read what their conspiracy blogs fed them. You know, same as the ClimateGate denier fraud.
