Construction company building private wall for group with Trump ties has been awarded with $400 million by the government to build the border wall
The Pentagon on Monday announced that North Dakota company Fisher Sand and Gravel was awarded a contract to"design-build border infrastructure along the southern perimeter of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge" in Arizona by the end of 2020. The company had previously been approved by the Pentagon as an eligible vendor for wall projects.
A decade ago, a former co-owner of the company pleaded guilty to tax fraud and was sentenced to prison. Read MoreThe company also admitted to defrauding the federal government by impeding the IRS. The former executive, who's a brother of the current company owner, is no longer associated with Fisher.
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