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The #Justice Dept has the authority to freeze assets, but it can only take that step when it has evidence suggesting the assets can be traced to a #crime.

In this case, the people said, Cheung & Martin disagreed over whether halting releases was inappropriate & #unethical without such evidence, or whether she was *disobeying* the #DOJ’s leadership & investigative strategy of stopping releases & looking for evidence.

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The people said Cheung & interim US attorney #EdwardMartin [#Jan6 insurrectionist] disagreed over whether she was delaying efforts to order a financial institution to halt spending transfers pending further investigation, or seeking to reach a compromise by taking steps she believed were #ethical & appropriate. On Mon, Martin called Cheung, yelling at her for failing to do what acting deputy AG #EmilBove’s office had asked….

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Cheung’s resignation came in connection w/ a #Justice Department effort to assist #Trump’s new head of the #Environmental Protection Agency [#EPA], who said last week that he would try to rescind $20 billion in #grants awarded by the #Biden admin for #climate & #CleanEnergy projects, according to 2 people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it publicly.

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One should know, that right now, Feb 2025, medical data of all people in Germany are filed and stored on IBM systems again, via the electronic patient record #epa unless you take to the procedure of an opt-out. Nothing to hide? Seen a shrink lately? Politicians are demanding to make lists of people with psycholigical issues already.