Before Donald Trump tapped him to do a terrible job of running the Postal Service, DeJoy was a prolific political fundraiser. The FBI has some questions
that DeJoy had “never knowingly violated” campaign-finance laws. “Mr. DeJoy has learned that the Department of Justice is investigating campaign contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector,” the spokesman, Mark Corallo, said. “He has always been scrupulous in his adherence to the campaign-contribution laws and has never knowingly violated them.”
In May 2020, Trump appointed DeJoy, a prolific donor to Republican candidates and political committees who previously led a logistics company, to be USPS postmaster.
The complaint alleges that “campaign finance records show several instances of XPO employees contributing to the same candidate or committee, during the same period of time, and often in similar amounts; DeJoy family members, including DeJoy’s college-aged children, also made contributions on the same day or in the same period as those employees.” One recipient of that money, the
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