Louis DeJoy's rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were late
Source: WaPo
Louis DeJoys rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say
Louis DeJoys prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by a practice that left many employees feeling pressured to make political contributions to GOP candidates money DeJoy later reimbursed through bonuses, former employees say.
Five people who worked for DeJoys former business, New Breed Logistics, say they were urged by DeJoys aides or by the chief executive himself to write checks and attend fundraisers at his 15,000-square-foot gated mansion beside a Greensboro, N.C., country club. There, events for Republicans running for the White House and Congress routinely fetched $100,000 or more apiece.
Two other employees familiar with New Breeds financial and payroll systems said DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions, an arrangement that would be unlawful.
Louis was a national fundraiser for the Republican Party. He asked employees for money. We gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses, said David Young, DeJoys longtime director of human resources, who had access to payroll records at New Breed from the late 1990s to 2013 and is now retired. When we got our bonuses, lets just say they were bigger, they exceeded expectations and that covered the tax and everything else.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html
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2naSalit
(86,577 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)And is anyone the least bit surprised?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)That's a serious FEC violation.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)Silence is complicit.
He needs to be charged or we're just allowing this sort of practice to continue.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Thanks for posting, blue
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)...and I am HERE for it! :
LonePirate
(13,417 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Also, what the Sam Hill happened with Broidys indictment? Well, maybe this week - hes a big get, dammit!!! https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/elliott-broidy-rick-gates-china-malaysia/
raging moderate
(4,304 posts)Is English perhaps not your first language, Monsieur DeJoy?
mjvpi
(1,388 posts)In my country, a man is killed for selling single cigarettes and then, if DeJoy is ever held to account for this, it will be resolved by him paying an amount of money equal to several years worth of wages to me, but to him it will be an amount equal to statistical noise. Do I sound bitter?
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)ancianita
(36,048 posts)Right now it's just his word as an insider. Not enough to nail DeJoy with.
Witnesses to a crime aren't the equivalent of a done deal when it comes to nailing a racketeer.
PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)Trump can continue to cast doubt on the outcome of our election.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)But is it a crime?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)and AG who will be looking into that.
yardwork
(61,599 posts)Karma13612
(4,552 posts)WOW, well done!
NoJoy needs to be taken down along with the rest of the Trump Criminal Enterprise.
This guy is really really corrupt.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)klook
(12,154 posts)Hope there will be some meaningful consequences for this turd.