Article alleges DeJoy reimbursed employees to make Republican contributions

[Non Swing Voter]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/louis-dejoy-campaign-contributions/2020/09/06/1187bc2c-e3fe-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html

[GeorgiaModerate]

Isn't that illegal?

[Non Swing Voter]

Isn't that illegal?

you would think as it's basically skirting contribution limits if true.

[DINGO Joe]

Isn't that illegal?

Yes

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Isn't that illegal?

Yes

If only we had a functioning justice system in this country.

[Likely Voter]

It's called' straw donation' and it is very illegal and people have gone to jail for it. Dinesh D'Souza was convicted of it and was sent to halfway house IIRC. Trump later pardoned him.

[7,052,770]

Isn't that illegal?

Yes, but Trump will pardon him in January so why should he care?

[pbrower2a]

Isn't that illegal?

Political employees, no. Others -- yes. There are civil service rules that prohibit making contributions to electoral campaigns in kind and cash as necessary or advisable for getting, continuation of, or advancement at a job. I know about the federal rules but not much about the states and cities. Squeezing public employees to make contributions or campaign for the machine pols was a huge stink a bit more than a century ago. Thank you, Theodore Roosevelt and your ilk.

I have worked on the Census, and I have kept my mouth shut on partisan politics. As a substitute school teacher I have dodged any expression of political orientation (or sexual orientation... even if straight I am not going to say derogatory things about LGBT people).

[ProudModerate2]

trump and his inner circle of crooks.
May they all rot in jail together.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Here is a job for intrepid investigative journalists: find a member of the Trump administration that hasn't broken any laws.

[Indy Texas]

Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say

...DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions, an arrangement that would be unlawful.

"...He asked employees for money. We gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses,” said David Young, DeJoy’s longtime director of human resources, who had access to payroll records at New Breed from the late 1990s to 2013 and is now retired.

“He would ask employees to make contributions at the same time that he would say, ‘I’ll get it back to you down the road,’ ” said the former employee, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from DeJoy.

Between 2000 and 2014, 124 individuals who worked for the company together gave more than $1 million to federal and state GOP candidates. Many had not previously made political donations, and have not made any since leaving the company, public records show.

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. Known as a straw-donor scheme, the practice allows donors to evade individual contribution limits and obscures the true source of money used to influence elections.

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.

I trust that North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General will do the proper thing and ensure these egregious crimes do not go unpunished. Lock him up!

[President Johnson]

So much swamp draining, we're sick and tired of all the winning!

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

So much swamp draining, we're sick and tired of all the winning!

The swamp has been drained so much that we have made a freaking polder out of it and now we'll build a golf course on the polder!

[Progressive Pessimist]

He fits in a little too well with this administration.

[Blue3]

I'm sure we can trust this guy to be impartial and apolitical this election season...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louis-dejoy-postmaster-donations-gop_n_5f55a5cfc5b6946f3eb4081e

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy allegedly pressured former employees to donate to Republican candidates he supported and then reimbursed them with large bonuses, according to multiple media reports.

Both The Washington Post and The New York Times said Sunday that DeJoy, a top Republican fundraiser and Trump megadonor, urged workers at his former business, New Breed Logistics, to write checks to lawmakers for more than a decade between 2003 and 2014.

The Post spoke with five former employees who corroborated the accounts and analyzed campaign finance records which showed more than $1 million in donations during that period to federal and state GOP candidates. Only $700 was donated to Democratic candidates during the same period by company employees.


“He asked employees for money. We gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses,” David Young, a former director of human resources at DeJoy’s company, told the Post. “When we got our bonuses, let’s just say they were bigger, they exceeded expectations — and that covered the tax and everything else.”

Other employees told the Times they were never approached to make political donations, and it’s unclear how they may have been solicited. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the allegations were serious enough that the North Carolina attorney general should open an investigation into the matter.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Hell, the guy only got his job because he was a Trump donor. Cronyism is running rampant in this administration, and has from the get-go. "The Swamp" is deeper than ever.

[QAnonKelly]

Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the criminal party.

[Yoda]

So....money laundering? Or is that technically different than breaking campaign donation limits? I mean, they're both done with the intention to conceal the true source of the money, right?

[Yoda]

Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say

...DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions, an arrangement that would be unlawful.

"...He asked employees for money. We gave him the money, and then he reciprocated by giving us big bonuses,” said David Young, DeJoy’s longtime director of human resources, who had access to payroll records at New Breed from the late 1990s to 2013 and is now retired.

“He would ask employees to make contributions at the same time that he would say, ‘I’ll get it back to you down the road,’ ” said the former employee, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from DeJoy.

Between 2000 and 2014, 124 individuals who worked for the company together gave more than $1 million to federal and state GOP candidates. Many had not previously made political donations, and have not made any since leaving the company, public records show.

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. Known as a straw-donor scheme, the practice allows donors to evade individual contribution limits and obscures the true source of money used to influence elections.

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.

I trust that North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General will do the proper thing and ensure these egregious crimes do not go unpunished. Lock him up!

So happy the NC AG is a dem. Maybe we'll find out the truth about the postal service sabotage when DeJoy goes to state prison and squeals on trump/mnuchin/the USPS board to get a reduced sentence.

[GP270watch]

 And ya'll think this guy running the Post Office won't cheat to help Trump win when he's clearly broken the law before to help get him elected. I don't like to presume anybody's guilt but this is pretty bad. They have records of company employees(like 12 of them) all donating to candidates within a day or two.

[Nutmeg]

Whether or not the employees knew this was illegal, could they also be charged for their role in this criminal enterprise?

[GP270watch]

Whether or not the employees knew this was illegal, could they also be charged for their role in this criminal enterprise?

They would get a deal for sure to flip on him.