Given that there are so many instances and example and I anticipate many more over the next four years, I think it it might be good to track them in one thread. Whether it is conflicts of interest, pay for play, corruption, influence peddling, pardoning or dropping charges on those accused or convicted of corruption, profiting from the office…put it all here. With the whole-sale dismantling or neutering of many watchdog agencies/boards/councils set up to provide an independent system of checks and balances and protect whistle-blowers, this has become so blatent and unapologetic, it seems as if the administration is thumbing their nose at us and daring anyone to speak up. If they do, they will almost certainly become a target.
I’ll start with something pretty mild compared to what has gone on so far (such as the case with Eric Adams).
Tom Homan, Trump’s “Border Czar” has financial ties to a large private prison corporation which will benefit from contracts to incarcerate deportees.
"This news raises even more questions, and the corruption concerns are too large to ignore," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat
www.latintimes.com
Ethics experts and immigrant rights advocates are raising concerns over newly disclosed financial ties between
Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar," and
GEO Group, a major private prison company poised to benefit from the administration's push to expand immigrant detention.
According to a federal ethics disclosure obtained by The Washington Post, Homan received more than $5,000 in consulting fees from GEO Care, a division of GEO Group,
in the two years prior to joining the Trump administration in January.
www.theguardian.com
