Column: Coming soon — 'righteous prosecution' of Trumpian misdeeds? (via latimesopinion)
At some point — and maybe as soon as January — the Department of Justice will find itself facing a herculean task: restoring public confidence in its integrity and commitment to enforcing the law without fear or favor, a bedrock principle that the Trump administration has methodically savaged.
The shoveling-out work will take many forms: supporting new legislation to prevent the flippant disregard of congressional oversight; setting new DOJ policies — for example to rebuild the wall precluding most communications between the White House and the department; demanding more professionalism in the hiring of political appointees.I’m not talking here about investigating and charging Donald Trump, or his inner circle.
The Post cited five people who worked for New Breed who said DeJoy pushed them to make political contributions; two former New Breed executives said such contributions were reimbursed with corporate money, as bonuses. Public records showed, in all, 124 New Breed employees gave more than $1 million to federal and state GOP candidates from 2000 to 2014.
What the reporting describes sounds a lot like a classic straw donor scheme, designed to evade individual contribution limits and the prohibition against corporate donations to candidates. The true donor, according to the allegations, was DeJoy’s company, which at his instruction paid the employees back.DeJoy’s overall success at corralling donations for the GOP propelled him to a position of power in the party, and then into the job of running the U.S.
DeJoy was tapped for the Postal Service job despite having zero direct post office experience. He famously couldn’t
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