The photo above is a picture of page four of the Amended Foreign Area Registration Act statement signed by Madeline Lane of Warner Norcross & Judd, a Michigan law firm whose client is Gotion, Inc.
The updated registration, dated 7/20/2024, states, “WNJ amends its registration and states that Gotion is partially subsidized through government funding supplied by the People’s Republic of China.“
This statement is further proof of Gotion, Inc.’s ties to the CCP. These ties were disputed in Gotion’s response to the legal complaint filed by the Concerned Citizens of Manteno. In their response, Gotion said, “Plaintiffs make various provocative, inflammatory allegations throughout the Amended Complaint about Gotion’s ties to China, the Chinese Communist Party, purported national security threats, and the supposed harmful effects of lithium battery plants.” Further, Gotion called the Complaint, “xenophobic, inflammatory, unsubstantiated.“
Not surprisingly, the amended FARA registration comes after the July 15th hearing in Kankakee, where Gotion argued for the dismissal of their case.
On the matter of Gotion’s ties to the CCP and now slave labor, the Select Committee on the CCP has made it clear that the ties are significant and indisputable. Illinois taxpayers should not be funding our number one adversary – or any other company for that matter, especially those engaged in green energy products that do not have a proven market.
Side note – JB Pritzker needs to stop playing venture capitalist with our taxpayer money. Lion Electric is in trouble. The Chicago Tribune reported in this article, about the company’s struggles, noting:
Lion Electric Co. laid off 300 more people or about a third of its workforce Wednesday as the slow rollout of electric school bus subsidies in the United States and Canada caused a sharp drop in revenue.
Wednesday’s job cuts, announced in a news release, mark the company’s fourth round of layoffs since November. Most of them, officials said, will be temporary.
The layoffs affect a significant number of workers at the company’s year-old bus factory in Joliet, according to Chris Tucker, who’s trying to organize the plant for the International Association of Machinists and who’d been in touch with some of its workers Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Marie-Eve Labranche, a spokeswoman, declined to say how many Joliet workers were laid off. But on a conference call, Lion Electric officials said they were indefinitely delaying truck production in Joliet, partly over uncertainty around the future of subsidies after the U.S. presidential election….
Lion Electric lost $19.3 million in the second quarter, up 64% from its $11.8 million loss in the year-ago period.
Lion Electric’s shares had dropped 18% to 70 cents as of 1:05 p.m. on Wednesday in New York. So far this year, they’re down 60%.
During a recent weekday, the Lion Electric plant in Joliet had 100 parked cars for workers and visitors.
While speaking at a triumphant ribbon-cutting a year ago, Pritzker said 1,400 jobs were coming.
Rivian, Gotion, Stellantis, Lion Electric – are getting massive subsidies (Stellantis subsidy is still unknown) for EV and EV batteries, but the industry is struggling and taxpayers should not be on the hook for these businesses.
If your company cannot produce a commercial or consumer product without a government subsidy, then you’re not really producing under a capitalist system – just admit that you are owned by the government.