Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

[Winston]

Never in the history of the world has any gvt investigation ever been ended. LOL



You mean the OSHA investigations of deaths at three different facilities that were concluded before Trump was elected President? Those investigations? LOL

There were other investigations, and a lawsuit to release company records to confirm their compliance with regulations at that facility, was eliminated after the donation.

 

[Rawley]

Show us.

The OP did. Didn't read it huh?

 

[PeterPilot]

Donald & The Zionists are as corrupt as they come.

 

[Rawley]

There were other investigations

Care to cite them, because your first attempt at TRUMP was certainly a face plant.

, and a lawsuit to release company records to confirm their compliance with regulations at that facility, was eliminated after the donation.

You mean the FOIA lawsuit filed against Biden's DOL? That lawsuit? How did it end? Should I even bother asking you for a link?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Its a lie.....

Please cite support for your statement, not just your the crap coming out of your ass.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Don’t care. Why is this news or shocking to you when both parties do this?

Pay for play.

 

[Winston]

Care to cite them, because your first attempt at TRUMP was certainly a face plant.

You mean the FOIA lawsuit filed against Biden's DOL? That lawsuit? How did it end? Should I even bother asking you for a link?

Yes, that one. It wasn't filed till the end of 2024. Has it not been thrown out, which protects Google and the government at the expense of the people.

 

[drudge X]

The bizarre thing about MAGAs is they never seem to realize their submissive acceptance of Trump's egregious corrupt behavior is a setting of lower and lower bars of conduct which inevitably come back to bite them in their mouth-breathing faces.

They have thrown all their morals out the window without even the slightest hesitation.

Now the only tangentially ethical thing they can plausibly whine about any more is...pronouns.

Says the guy who turned a blind eye to billions of dollars of fraud in CA, especially the high speed rail.

 

[drudge X]

Pay for play.

Ok, are you saying Democrats would never do this? Have you seen the cost for the high speed rail in CA? How much have been spent, in billions that is, and how many miles of tracks laid?

 

[westwall]

I am sure its just a coincidence. Donor’s to Trump’s ballroom received $50Bn in sweet sweet government contracts. Totally coincidental.



Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...er-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says/



President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by a government watchdog group.



Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow in that window, according to the report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit. Most of those same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term, the nonprofit found.



The donors have sprawling interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including defense contracting, technology and energy. Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



“These giant corporations aren’t funding the Trump ballroom fiasco out of the goodness of their hearts,” said Jon Golinger, a public policy advocate at Public Citizen and an author of the report. “They have massive interests before the federal government, and they hope to curry favor with, and receive favorable treatment from, the Trump administration.”



The analysis builds on a report from the group last fall that found the known donors held $279 billion in government contracts over the previous five years and had spent $1.6 billion on political contributions and lobbying during that time. The new report focuses on contracts awarded in most of the seven months since the East Wing’s demolition, which Trump’s critics have argued created new urgency around potential conflicts of interest.



Of the known donors, no single contributor received more new business with the government since giving to the project than Lockheed Martin. The defense giant received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contract funding since last fall, according to the report.



Booz Allen Hamilton followed, with more than $4.2 billion, and Palantir, with just over $1 billion. Other donors that received new or increased contracts include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile. (Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Altogether, more than two-thirds of corporate ballroom donors — 19 of 27 — have received government contracts over the past five and a half years, totaling $338 billion, the report says.



Sixteen of the 27 donors are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration, the report found, including major antitrust reviews involving Amazon, Apple, Meta and Nvidia; labor rights cases involving Google, Lockheed and Meta; and securities matters involving Coinbase and Ripple, whose cases have been dropped or scaled back under Trump.

And?

 

[g5000]

Says the guy who turned a blind eye to billions of dollars of fraud in CA, especially the high speed rail.

My goodness! Look at all this fauxrage you have been trained to express over some fraud!

Fraud must really matter to you!

Hmmm...



LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED
HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION


Do you know whose company that was?

Republican Senator Rick Scott.

Largest.

Health Care Fraud.

In.

US.

History.

Rick Scott: Wikipedia

During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.


.

SIX MONTHS LATER:

Donald Trump endorses Rick Scott for re-election

Birds of a feather:

Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud​

Not to be confused with:

Trump Foundation Will Dissolve, Accused of ‘Shocking Pattern of Illegality’​

 

[Rawley]

Yes, that one. It wasn't filed till the end of 2024. Has it not been thrown out, which protects Google and the government at the expense of the people.

You were ranting about Amazon, now you're ranting about Google? It hasn't been thrown out/settled? Wasn't that your entire argument, that Trump settled all these lawsuits and investigations to get a few dollars for the ballroom?

You seem very confused. You OK? Should we alert medical aid?

 

[drudge X]

My goodness! Look at all this fauxrage you have been trained to express over some fraud!

Fraud must really matter to you!

Hmmm...



LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED
HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION


Do you know whose company that was?

Republican Senator Rick Scott.

Largest.

Health Care Fraud.

In.

US.

History.

Rick Scott: Wikipedia

During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The U.S. Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history.


.

SIX MONTHS LATER:

Donald Trump endorses Rick Scott for re-election

Birds of a feather:

Trump Organization found guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud​

Not to be confused with:

Trump Foundation Will Dissolve, Accused of ‘Shocking Pattern of Illegality’​

Great, now do the fraud under Walz and Democrat collaborators in MN.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

I am sure its just a coincidence. Donor’s to Trump’s ballroom received $50Bn in sweet sweet government contracts. Totally coincidental.



Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...er-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says/



President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by a government watchdog group.



Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow in that window, according to the report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit. Most of those same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term, the nonprofit found.



The donors have sprawling interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including defense contracting, technology and energy. Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



“These giant corporations aren’t funding the Trump ballroom fiasco out of the goodness of their hearts,” said Jon Golinger, a public policy advocate at Public Citizen and an author of the report. “They have massive interests before the federal government, and they hope to curry favor with, and receive favorable treatment from, the Trump administration.”



The analysis builds on a report from the group last fall that found the known donors held $279 billion in government contracts over the previous five years and had spent $1.6 billion on political contributions and lobbying during that time. The new report focuses on contracts awarded in most of the seven months since the East Wing’s demolition, which Trump’s critics have argued created new urgency around potential conflicts of interest.



Of the known donors, no single contributor received more new business with the government since giving to the project than Lockheed Martin. The defense giant received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contract funding since last fall, according to the report.



Booz Allen Hamilton followed, with more than $4.2 billion, and Palantir, with just over $1 billion. Other donors that received new or increased contracts include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile. (Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Altogether, more than two-thirds of corporate ballroom donors — 19 of 27 — have received government contracts over the past five and a half years, totaling $338 billion, the report says.



Sixteen of the 27 donors are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration, the report found, including major antitrust reviews involving Amazon, Apple, Meta and Nvidia; labor rights cases involving Google, Lockheed and Meta; and securities matters involving Coinbase and Ripple, whose cases have been dropped or scaled back under Trump.

The Trump regime is the most criminal and corrupt in US history.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

I am sure its just a coincidence. Donor’s to Trump’s ballroom received $50Bn in sweet sweet government contracts. Totally coincidental.



Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...er-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says/



President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by a government watchdog group.



Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow in that window, according to the report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit. Most of those same companies are also facing federal enforcement actions over alleged wrongdoing or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration since the start of Trump’s second term, the nonprofit found.



The donors have sprawling interests that touch nearly every aspect of American life, including defense contracting, technology and energy. Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for corruption.



“These giant corporations aren’t funding the Trump ballroom fiasco out of the goodness of their hearts,” said Jon Golinger, a public policy advocate at Public Citizen and an author of the report. “They have massive interests before the federal government, and they hope to curry favor with, and receive favorable treatment from, the Trump administration.”



The analysis builds on a report from the group last fall that found the known donors held $279 billion in government contracts over the previous five years and had spent $1.6 billion on political contributions and lobbying during that time. The new report focuses on contracts awarded in most of the seven months since the East Wing’s demolition, which Trump’s critics have argued created new urgency around potential conflicts of interest.



Of the known donors, no single contributor received more new business with the government since giving to the project than Lockheed Martin. The defense giant received roughly $43.8 billion in new or expanded contract funding since last fall, according to the report.



Booz Allen Hamilton followed, with more than $4.2 billion, and Palantir, with just over $1 billion. Other donors that received new or increased contracts include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Caterpillar and T-Mobile. (Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Altogether, more than two-thirds of corporate ballroom donors — 19 of 27 — have received government contracts over the past five and a half years, totaling $338 billion, the report says.



Sixteen of the 27 donors are facing federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by the Trump administration, the report found, including major antitrust reviews involving Amazon, Apple, Meta and Nvidia; labor rights cases involving Google, Lockheed and Meta; and securities matters involving Coinbase and Ripple, whose cases have been dropped or scaled back under Trump.

There is a decent chance some people will go to jail over this.

 

[Winston]

You were ranting about Amazon, now you're ranting about Google? It's hasn't been thrown out/settled? Wasn't that your entire argument, that Trump settled all these lawsuits and investigations to get a few dollars for the ballroom?

You seem very confused. You OK? Should we alert medical aid?

I meant Amazon. The whole ballroom is nothing but blatant, right in our face, corruption.

 

[San Souci]

So did they have .gov contracts before they donated? I suspect they did.

So? How many Projects did BIDEN get from Ukraine from his Coke sniffin' Brat?

 

[g5000]

Says the guy who turned a blind eye to billions of dollars of fraud in CA, especially the high speed rail.

Over $2 billion of restitution to the victims of multiple frauds have been vaporized due to Trump pardoning the crooks who stole from them.

Where's the outrage, son?

 

[drudge X]

There is a decent chance some people will go to jail over this.

Good luck. How many people went to jail for crashing the economy in 2008?

 

[drudge X]

Over $2 billion of restitution to the victims of multiple frauds have been vaporized due to Trump pardoning the crooks who stole from them.

Where's the outrage, son?

I am asking you.

Are you saying Democrats would never commit fraud?