This is actually a follow up on an article I wrote several months ago, but suddenly, it has grown fresh legs. It concerns postal disgrace Louis DeJoy of course.
Back during the run up to the election, when DeJoy was showing himself to be the Gozer The Destructor of the postal service, reports started floating around in the media that DeJoy may have a wee larcenous streak to him. DeJoy, who has donated millions to GOP candidates, including Trump, was accused by high ranking executives at the former company he ran of playing fast and loose with FEC donation regulations. DeJoy brushed the accusations off and kept trampling the postal service.
Anybody want some fire with that smoke? The Washington Post is reporting the the FBI confirmed that it has opened an active investigation into DeJoy responding to multiple complaints of FEC personal donation contributions.
The allegations center around DeJoy’s possible use of coerced straw donors to help to avoid FEC regulations. Individuals have a maximum cap of around $2,400 dollars that they can donate to an individual candidate in any one cycle. After that, they’re tapped out. This is why politicians cherish small money donors, who can be repeatedly hit up over the life o the cycle.
The investigation alleges that DeJoy regularly tapped himself and his wife out early in a cycle, and then moved on to using straw donors to make additional, illegal contributions.
Here’s how it appears to have worked. DeJoy, while running his previous company, went to executives and managers in his company and asked them to maker donations to specific GOP candidates in specific amounts. When DeJoy ran into resistance from the executives, he told them to not worry about it, just make the damn donations, and once it was done, the company would issue them bonus checks to repay them, plus a profit.
That is blatantly illegal. You can’t use an outside 3rd party to use your money to make donations to a candidate when you’re already maxed out for the cycle. In fact, not that long ago, a Trombie pleaded guilty to being a straw donor by funneling money from a Ukrainian oligarch into the Trump inauguration committee in return for tickets to the inauguration. It’s illegal for foreign national to contribute to any campaign organ.
As Rachel Maddow likes to say, stick a pin in this one. My personal feeling is that DeToy knows that he’s screwed. In response to the report, DeJoy’s organization acknowledged the investigation, but insisted that DeJoy never knowingly violated any FEC regulations or laws. I can’t wait to hear him explain why he felt he had to jump through all of these deceptive hoops in order to do something he thought was totally legal. Don’t touch that dial.
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he used his kids, too.
I hope he’s indicted and forced to resign.
And charged and convicted and imprisoned.
I hope he’s forced to resign regardless…he’s incompetent aside from the alleged criminal activity.
I have a confession to make – I’ve never considered committing a felony. Unless eating too many of my BF’s Graham crackers is a felony, which perhaps technically it is.
Anyway, from my non-felonious perspective, I can kind of understand why someone prone to wrongdoing would see that Trump was in power, so the time to break out the burlap sacks with dollar signs on them was nigh. However…none of them had exit strategies?? Did it not don on any of these people to cover their tracks?
If I were going to be a crook, I’d like to think I’d formulate a plan, with a window for the crime and a period of covering things up, so that when power eventually transferred I’d be as secure from prosecution as possible.
I suppose the life lesson there is that…spoiler alert…people who don’t commit crimes don’t think the same as those who do, lol. DeJoy isn’t on my top ten wish list for prison, but he’s on the list there somewhere. I wish him many months of hassle, anxiety and legal woes.
Rick (Casablanca): “louie, why are you closing me down?”
Louie,” I’m shocked. Shocked there’s gambling going on in here.”
Staff handing money to him. “Your winnings sir.”
My feeling is that we cannot get him out of the post office fast enough. If these charges will do it, more power to them. Of course, I would like to see all the crooks from former guy held accountable.
The Pardon is in the mail.
Wait! No it isn’t!!
His on air denials are less convincing than ted bundy’s in court.