Ten Republican House members are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the Biden administration’s request late last year to drop a fraud case involving hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a green energy project in southern Nevada.
Led by Reps. Carol Miller of West Virginia and Lance Gooden of Texas, the lawmakers sent a letter to Bondi last week claiming that the Department of Justice did not properly explain why it asked a federal court to drop a case against Tonopah Solar Energy, owner of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant.
The lawsuit, first filed by CMB Export in 2020, alleges fraud involving $275 million in cash grants from the Treasury Department for construction of the project. The plant uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a tower, heating molten salt to store solar energy.
“Despite investing three and a half years in investigating this case, it is deeply troubling that the DOJ reversed its position shortly after the presidential election, claiming the dismissal was in the public interest and citing undue burdens on federal agencies,” the lawmakers wrote to Bondi in their Friday letter.
