APNewsBreak: Questions surround Trump's 1st wall contract

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By MARGERY A. BECK
6 minutes ago

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A tiny Nebraska startup awarded the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors and accused in a 2016 government audit of shady billing practices.

SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won the $11 million federal contract in November as part of a project to replace a little more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of a current fence with post-style barriers 30 feet (9.1 meters) high in Calexico, California. The project represents a sliver of the president’s plan that was central to his presidential campaign promise for a wall at the border with Mexico.

It remains unclear why SWF was listed on the bid for the wall contract instead of Edgewood, New York-based Coastal Environmental Group, which online government documents list as its owner.

Thomas Anderson, an Omaha lawyer who initially represented a subcontractor that sued Coastal in 2011, said he wouldn’t be surprised if it was an attempt to dodge scrutiny of past legal problems. He says such a practice is relatively common in construction projects.

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. In the finest tradition of The Trump Companies....

...the sleaze never ends.

[lagomorph777]

2. Relax, that's not the REAL contractor.

The REAL contractor is the Trump Organization. The paperwork shows that contractor only because they are close buds with Trump and share the same business ethics.

[Maeve]

3. Re-read that first paragraph and tell me who it sounds like...

"sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors" "shady billing practices"....

OF COURSE they got a tRump contract!

[PatSeg]

5. Yep

Business that practices "The Art of the Deal".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. "tiny startup"; like Whitefish (Puerto Rico catastrophe) & the meal company for Puerto Rico

Trump Gang always giving cushy no bid contracts to dodgy incompetent incapable small startups suggested by cronies.

Anyone who wonders what is going on needs to follow the money. First case led back to a neighbor of a tRump cabinet officer. Surprise surprise.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I'm sure there is some sort of connection

to Team Trump, or a close ally.

[procon]

7. There's a noticeable pattern in the particular companies that Trump picks

for these juicy government contracts. This company as the same MO as that tiny Wyoming startup that was awarded a multi million $ contract to rebuild the electric service in Puerto Rico, or the one that got a contract to provide millions of meals to hurricane victims even with no experience or facilities and a history of defaulting on past contracts.

Trump doesn't vet anyone. There is no other reason why all these incompetent, unqualified people, like the 130 who couldn't get security clearances, are queuing up to work for him. Like Trump, they are all birds of a feather.

[Weed Man]

8. Montana not Wyoming

Whitefish, Montana

[The Wizard]

9. Trump shell company(NT)