Postmaster DeJoy under investigation

[Rogue Valley]

House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations

9/7/20
House Democrats are launching an investigation of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and called for his immediate suspension following accusations that he reimbursed employees for campaign contributions they made to his preferred GOP politicians, an arrangement that would be unlawful. Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a statement late Monday that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which she chairs, would begin an investigation, saying that DeJoy may have lied to her committee under oath. Maloney also urged the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service to immediately suspend DeJoy, whom “they never should have hired in the first place,” she said. A spokesman for the Postal Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Maloney’s announcement came a day after The Washington Post reported allegations that DeJoy and his aides urged employees at his former North Carolina-based logistics company to write checks and attend fundraisers on behalf of Republican candidates. DeJoy then defrayed the cost of those political contributions by boosting employee bonuses, two employees told The Post. Although it can be permissible to encourage employees to make donations, reimbursing them for those contributions is a violation of North Carolina and federal election laws. Such federal violations carry a five-year statute of limitations. There is no statute of limitations in North Carolina for felonies, including campaign finance violations. Maloney said DeJoy faces “criminal exposure” not only if the allegations are true, “but also for lying to our committee under oath.”

Campaign finance laws put constraints on how much businessman (and now Postmaster General) Louis DeJoy could donate to Donald Trump. To get around this, Dejoy requested employees of his former company - New Breed Logistics - to donate money to Trump. Afterwards, Dejoy paid the employees back and then some using a company "bonus" payment. This is illegal - a federal campaign finance felony and a North Carolina campaign finance felony. DeJoy contributed $2.7 million to Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign. In early June, Trump appointed DeJoy Postmaster General with [verbal] instructions to choke the flow of mail-in ballots. To accomplish this, DeJoy removed/ruined 602 automatic sorting machines from USPS regional facilities, closed post offices, removed mailboxes, banned overtime, and devised a new schedule in which mail trucks must leave at a certain time even if they do not yet have the mail onboard they are supposed to have. Almost all of these DeJoy "streamlining" efforts took place in cities/counties that historically have voted Democrat.

 

[OrphanSlug]

Unsurprising... and still will result in absolutely nothing but mic time and committee meeting grandstanding during this "investigation."

By then we should already know what the landscape of the hill looks like for 2021.

 

[Ikari]

Seems relatively standard. Trump's Swamp may be the most overtly corrupt we've seen in some time.

 

[element94]

DeJoy has apparently engaged in multiple criminal activities, and obviously feels emboldened. He needs to be charged and tried.

 

[Ikari]

DeJoy has apparently engaged in multiple criminal activities, and obviously feels emboldened. He needs to be charged and tried.

I mean, he should feel emboldened. The Trump administration gets away with quite a bit and they're really rigging everything to prevent punishment to Trump's Men. Who is going to charge and try DeJoy? Barr? lol

 

[element94]

The justice system is not fully corrupted yet, as some recent judicial decisions against Trump have shown. There needs to be a normalcy of procedure about this because there still can be.

 

[tres borrachos]

House Oversight Committee will investigate Louis DeJoy following claims he pressured employees to make campaign donations

Campaign finance laws put constraints on how much businessman (and now Postmaster General) Louis DeJoy could donate to Donald Trump. To get around this, Dejoy requested employees of his former company - New Breed Logistics - to donate money to Trump. Afterwards, Dejoy paid the employees back and then some using a company "bonus" payment. This is illegal - a federal campaign finance felony and a North Carolina campaign finance felony. DeJoy contributed $2.7 million to Donald Trump's 2020 election campaign. In early June, Trump appointed DeJoy Postmaster General with [verbal] instructions to choke the flow of mail-in ballots. To accomplish this, DeJoy removed/ruined 602 automatic sorting machines from USPS regional facilities, closed post offices, removed mailboxes, banned overtime, and devised a new schedule in which mail trucks must leave at a certain time even if they do not yet have the mail onboard they are supposed to have. Almost all of these DeJoy "streamlining" efforts took place in cities/counties that historically have voted Democrat.

This looks really, really bad for DeJoy.

In a few days he will be some guy who Trump doesn't know. A coffee boy who happened to find himself named Postmaster General, and Trump won't even know how that happened.

 

[Guyzilla]

I think he is toast. Trump says, if he did what he is accused of, he should be fired. It will be easy to prove.

AS per usual, Trump DOES NO VETT anyone he hires. They have right wing bona fides and youre hired.