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The Big Man is Back - ICE gave $87M no-bid contract to business with Biden ties
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:01 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:01 am
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The Biden administration did not solicit bids for a multimillion contract to house migrant families in hotels and instead gave the massive contract to an organization whose leadership has ties to the White House, including one official who was on the Biden transition team.
In its rush to stand up facilities to hold families who come over the southern border illegally in rising numbers, the Biden administration signed a deal that a member of Congress and people with knowledge of the matter said presented a conflict of interest and wasted existing government facilities.
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Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (an agency of the Department of Homeland Security) signed an $87 million contract to acquire and oversee an operation involving 1,200 hotel beds to house migrant families in Arizona and Texas. The contract was given to the nonprofit organization Family Endeavors, based out of San Antonio, Texas, which has no previous history as an ICE contractor.
But Family Endeavors does have a former senior official on the Biden transition team in its leadership: former ICE official Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, identified as a potential broker in the deal by Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, who is tracking the contract, as well as two others with knowledge of the situation.
On Jan. 20, Inauguration Day, Family Endeavors announced that Lorenzen-Strait would become its senior director for migrant services and federal affairs, meaning that he would be the organization’s liaison to the federal government. Within two months, Lorenzen-Strait secured the contract.
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Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:03 am to WPBTiger
And not one Biden voter cared.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:04 am to WPBTiger
I'm sure this will get a lot of news cycle time.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:05 am to WPBTiger
If Trump had given a no-bid contract to a business associate which provided for some illegal to be housed at a cost of $283k for a F*CKING THREE MONTH STAY, he would have already been impeached AND CONVICTED.
This post was edited on 4/8/21 at 9:29 am
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:05 am to WPBTiger
Orange man baaaad!
Grrr...
Grrr...
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:06 am to Hetfield
Come to America illegally and get free hotel, food, stimulus money, healthcare and the ability to vote?
If I go to any other country legally they charge my arse.
If I go to any other country legally they charge my arse.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:20 am to WPBTiger
But but but , Trump hotels !
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:24 am to WPBTiger
Annnnnnddddd the GOP will do NOTHING of substance about it. Zero.
The hypocrisy is just unbelievable. Not only unbelievable... it’s UNSUSTAINABLE. You cannot have this one sided hysteria and propaganda and survive as a nation. No chance.
The hypocrisy is just unbelievable. Not only unbelievable... it’s UNSUSTAINABLE. You cannot have this one sided hysteria and propaganda and survive as a nation. No chance.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:25 am to WPBTiger
McGrath, Mickey, c on a, froman, Ted2010?
None will chime in on this?
None will chime in on this?
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:27 am to WPBTiger
Trump would already be impeached if this story leaked about him
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:29 am to WPBTiger
frick all of them. That’s par for the course with these rat bastards.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:31 am to Hetfield
quote:All 50 of them.
And not one Biden voter cared.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:35 am to MMauler
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If Trump had given a no-bid contract to a business associate which provided for someone to be housed at a cost of $283k for a F*CKING THREE MONTH STAY, he would have already been impeached AND CONVICTED
On repeat. DC is so fricking CORRUPT!
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:39 am to WPBTiger
Where is the 60 minutes story in this.
This is just like the Obama administration. Additionally, during the BP/Transoceanic/Halliburton macondo response the Obama administration constantly forced their friends companies into the process. Most were incompetent and had to be paid just to hang out.
This is just like the Obama administration. Additionally, during the BP/Transoceanic/Halliburton macondo response the Obama administration constantly forced their friends companies into the process. Most were incompetent and had to be paid just to hang out.
Posted on 4/8/21 at 9:41 am to TigerAxeOK
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All 50 of them.
Does that include the dead ones? They care but they don't get to vote on sh*t like this.
Posted on 4/9/21 at 7:28 pm to MMauler
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If Trump had given a no-bid contract to a business associate which provided for some illegal to be housed at a cost of $283k for a F*CKING THREE MONTH STAY, he would have already been impeached AND CONVICTED.
I'm trying to remember the particulars of the $300 million Puerto Rico electrical grid contract that was awarded by the Trump administration after hurricane Maria. I think Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was involved.
Can you help me with that?
Posted on 4/9/21 at 7:32 pm to texridder
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I'm trying to remember the particulars of the $300 million Puerto Rico electrical grid contract that was awarded by the Trump administration after hurricane Maria. I think Trump's Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke was involved. Can you help me with that?
Wait, you’re comparing the needs of US citizens in a hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico to illegals at the border?
This post was edited on 4/9/21 at 8:29 pm
Posted on 4/9/21 at 7:37 pm to texridder
Hey bud, the difference there is that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens whose homes were obliterated by a massive hurricane...
Come on.
Come on.
Posted on 4/9/21 at 7:41 pm to texridder
Just for clarity...
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Whitefish Energy’s contract with the Puerto Rico power authority was canceled one month into the company’s work on the island, after it was suggested Whitefish Energy gained an alleged no-bid contract because of favoritism by the Trump administration and ties to then-Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who’s from Whitefish. Techmanski and Zinke say those allegations were and are completely false. Techmanski also notes, correctly, that officials from FEMA and a power company that took over after Whitefish have been charged with fraud and bribery related to Puerto Rico contracts
– while investigations turned up no wrongdoing by his company
“We’re the last man standing,” he says. “We’re the ones who never got implicated in anything, because we conduct an ethical business.”
This post was edited on 4/9/21 at 7:47 pm
Posted on 4/9/21 at 7:44 pm to texridder
And lastly...
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Techmanski had worked earlier in his career in Puerto Rico and knew the terrain, so he said he began emailing officials at PREPA just before Maria hit, offering his company’s services. A PREPA official replied and asked for more information, and several days after the hurricane swept the island, knocking out power entirely, Techmanski and some of his crew flew to Puerto Rico. They toured the damage and then, in a candlelit conference room at PREPA headquarters on Sept. 26, 2017, hammered out a contract, he said. He said he returned to Montana to start lining up subcontractors and, a week later, the company began work on Puerto Rico.
Not only did Whitefish Energy begin repairing power lines, but it also helped coordinate fuel, food, water and other supplies that workers needed on the devastated island,.
This post was edited on 4/9/21 at 7:47 pm
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