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@realDonaldTrump This Washington Post expose is so completely unsurprising, as pretty much everyone who sucks up to the President proves to be a felon… Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed,

former employees say. Excerpt:
Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head of the U.S. Postal Service, was bolstered for more than a decade by a practice that left many employees

feeling pressured to make political contributions to GOP candidates — money DeJoy later reimbursed through bonuses, former employees say.
Five people who worked for DeJoy’s former business, New Breed Logistics, say they were urged by DeJoy’s aides or by the chief executive

himself to write checks and attend fundraisers at his 15,000-square-foot gated mansion beside a Greensboro, N.C., country club. There, events for Republicans running for the White House and Congress routinely fetched $100,000 or more apiece.
Two other employees familiar with New

Breed’s financial and payroll systems said DeJoy would instruct that bonus payments to staffers be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions, an arrangement that would be unlawful.
“Louis was a national fundraiser for the Republican Party. 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. “When we got our bonuses, let’s

just say they were bigger, they exceeded expectations — and that covered the tax and everything else.”
This is a felony. Hopefully this DeJoy’s days are thankfully numbered… @riskerversal @ScottWapnerCNBC @carlquintanilla @aronberg @EpsilonTheory @tomkeene @jimcramer

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