excalibur
Diamond Member
- Mar 19, 2015
- 18,092
- 34,233
- 2,290
Could be a huge story, but mostly the MSM will bury it.
The Biden transition team official who brokered an $87 million immigration contract for a nonprofit organization that he was simultaneously advising was never cleared by federal authorities to work on the deal and has since been banned from any future work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to agency documents.
A high-ranking ICE official in Washington, D.C., on June 2 sent his colleagues a message obtained by the Washington Examiner that stated Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, the senior director for migrant services and federal affairs at the nonprofit Family Endeavors, was denied the proper clearance to work on the contract he had secured for his organization months earlier.
“Mr. Andrew Lorenzen-Strait was not cleared to work on ISAP-IV. Please remove Mr. Andrew Lorenzen-Strait from supporting the ISAP IV contract,” wrote Joshua Jones, the management and program analyst for the Alternatives to Detention program within ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations’s Custody Management office. ISAP-IV is the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program IV’s Support Services, through which ICE manages illegal immigrants who have come across the border and have been released into the United States.
Lawyers familiar with the new development said that Lorenzen-Strait, who had overseen ICE's custody management, only adds to concerning evidence that prompted the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to launch an investigation into the deal following the Washington Examiner’s reporting this spring.
"He has a conflict of interest under 5 CFR 2641.201, which permanently bans any former federal employee from working on a federal contract that he or she substantially participated in or had some influence over while serving as a federal employee," Carol Thompson, a partner with the Washington-based Federal Practice Group law firm, wrote in an email. "I think it’s clear in this case that Mr. Lorenzen-Strait falls in that category."
...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
The Biden transition team official who brokered an $87 million immigration contract for a nonprofit organization that he was simultaneously advising was never cleared by federal authorities to work on the deal and has since been banned from any future work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to agency documents.
A high-ranking ICE official in Washington, D.C., on June 2 sent his colleagues a message obtained by the Washington Examiner that stated Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, the senior director for migrant services and federal affairs at the nonprofit Family Endeavors, was denied the proper clearance to work on the contract he had secured for his organization months earlier.
“Mr. Andrew Lorenzen-Strait was not cleared to work on ISAP-IV. Please remove Mr. Andrew Lorenzen-Strait from supporting the ISAP IV contract,” wrote Joshua Jones, the management and program analyst for the Alternatives to Detention program within ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations’s Custody Management office. ISAP-IV is the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program IV’s Support Services, through which ICE manages illegal immigrants who have come across the border and have been released into the United States.
Lawyers familiar with the new development said that Lorenzen-Strait, who had overseen ICE's custody management, only adds to concerning evidence that prompted the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General to launch an investigation into the deal following the Washington Examiner’s reporting this spring.
"He has a conflict of interest under 5 CFR 2641.201, which permanently bans any former federal employee from working on a federal contract that he or she substantially participated in or had some influence over while serving as a federal employee," Carol Thompson, a partner with the Washington-based Federal Practice Group law firm, wrote in an email. "I think it’s clear in this case that Mr. Lorenzen-Strait falls in that category."
...
Former Biden official who won $87M to house migrants banned from ICE contracts
The Biden transition team official who brokered an $87 million immigration contract for a nonprofit organization that he was simultaneously advising was never cleared by federal authorities to work on the deal and has since been banned from any future work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement,…
www.washingtonexaminer.com
