This week Julian Walker over at The Virginian-Pilot brought us all up to date on an old story–namely the civil investigative demand served by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli on the University of Virginia.
As readers may recall, Attorney General Cuccinelli, in a routine grant fraud investigation, served a CID University of Virginia seeking records related to Michael Mann’s climate research. (That is, Michael Mann the academic climatologist, not Michael Mann the highly-acclaimed Hollywood director and TV producer.)
UVa pushed back, and tried to turn this case into something other than what it is — that is, they made it into something other than a routine grant fraud investigation under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act…which is something defendants often try. Long story short, the case is now with SCOVA, and the news is that it will not he heard this year.
But here is the real news — General Cuccinelli has broken so much new ground since then that the CID is no longer the talk of the town….