USPS has paid Trump’s postmaster general $286 million since 2013: report – By Alex Henderson (Alternet) / Sept 3 2020
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, has drawn widespread criticism for slowing down mail delivery in the United States and undermining the U.S. Postal Service — and far-right Trump supporters have made no secret of their desire to see mail delivery totally privatized. DeJoy’s background has been not in government, but in the private sector — including the company XPO Logistics, where he was an executive. And journalists Luke Broadwater and Catie Edmondson, in the New York Times, explain how deeply involved with that company DeJoy continues to be.
According to Broadwater and Edmondson, the U.S. Postal Service has “paid about $286 million over the past seven years to XPO Logistics” — and DeJoy “still holds at least a $30 million stake in the company, which has ramped up its business with the Postal Service since he took the helm at the agency.”
The Times reporters explain, “The figures, obtained by The New York Times from a public records request, shed new light on the extent to which the company where Mr. DeJoy was a top executive — and in which he still has a substantial amount of money invested — is intertwined with the agency he now runs, fueling questions about a potential conflict of interest.”
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