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Jirel

(1,993 posts)
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 01:52 PM Sep 2020

Louis DeJoy Reportedly Reimbursed Employees for GOP Donations Through Bonuses

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Source: Slate

We already knew that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's profile in Republican circles grew on the back of big campaign donations. The North Carolina businessman who became the first postmaster general in almost two decades to get the job without being a career postal employee, built a reputation as a superstar Republican bundler, which came with numerous benefits, including presidential and gubernatorial appointments for his wife. But it turns out at least part of that success in fundraising had to do with pressuring employees to donate to GOP candidates and then reimbursing them through bonuses, reports the Washington Post.

At least five former employees who worked for DeJoy's former business, New Breed Logistics, said they were not-so-subtly pressured to write checks and attend fundraisers. DeJoy would then personally direct that bonus payments be made to certain staffers that would make up for the cost of their financial political contributions. "He asked employees for money. We gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses," David Young, who as director of human resources had access to payroll records from the late 1990s to 2013, said. An unnamed former employee said DeJoy didn't hide his requests: "He would ask employees to make contributions at the same time that he would say, 'I'll get it back to you down the road'."

Read more: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/louis-dejoy-reimburse-employees-republican-donations.amp



I do believe the correct terms are "money laundering" and "election fraud."

Edit: another great article on the laws broken:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/07/legal-lines-louis-dejoys-alleged-campaign-contribution-reimbursements-may-have-crossed/?hpid=hp_convention-tt-1_fix-dejoy-715am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
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Louis DeJoy Reportedly Reimbursed Employees for GOP Donations Through Bonuses (Original Post) Jirel Sep 2020 OP
If this Criminal SOB is not removed ASAP the USPS is gonna go down even further and quicker. CurtEastPoint Sep 2020 #1
Laws are only for the Unrich masses? pwb Sep 2020 #2
duplicate post ? left-of-center2012 Sep 2020 #3
I always feared that some shit like this was going on in Home Owner Associations, Baitball Blogger Sep 2020 #4
Talk about "the Swamp" RussBLib Sep 2020 #5
And this is why... Catch2.2 Sep 2020 #6
LOCKING applegrove Sep 2020 #7

CurtEastPoint

(18,552 posts)
1. If this Criminal SOB is not removed ASAP the USPS is gonna go down even further and quicker.
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 01:53 PM
Sep 2020

HE MUST GO!

pwb

(11,205 posts)
2. Laws are only for the Unrich masses?
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 01:55 PM
Sep 2020

White collar crime needs a new look at for sure.

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
4. I always feared that some shit like this was going on in Home Owner Associations,
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 02:55 PM
Sep 2020

where good ole boy, backwater conversations between the City and Community leaders control every major decision. If you have to induce someone in an Association, and the good buddies control the board, I don't think it's impossible to find paybacks in the way of maintaining private property in return for silence or support.

I wish we could go back to three decades in my Association to see what we would find. I'm pretty damn sure there are text book examples of this kind of bullshit.

RussBLib

(8,985 posts)
5. Talk about "the Swamp"
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 03:10 PM
Sep 2020

Give enough money, get a big job.

Catch2.2

(629 posts)
6. And this is why...
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 03:48 PM
Sep 2020

All these crooks need to be prosecuted! We need to send a message that this is not ok. Make it so the next "Mega-donor" will think twice before doing something like this.

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
7. LOCKING
Mon Sep 7, 2020, 04:04 PM
Sep 2020

Alert: Duplicate. Below is the previous article on the same topic:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142576994


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