The @nytimes piece unpacking the authoritarian kleptocracy we live under offers new insight the world’s leading purveyor of for-profit human cages.
Some key takeaways, and two questions in this 🧵 1/4
Some key takeaways, and two questions in this 🧵 1/4
Takeaway 1: GEO and its execs steer corporate money into private businesses of the regime’s leader while also paying its favorite lobbyist to seek contracts and policy changes that steer taxpayer $ into the company’s coffers. Quids meet quos via Ballard pros. We knew this.
Takeaway 2: GEO’s CEO allegedly acknowledges the “transactional” nature of this relationship, and his patronage. He’s refused to testify about a meeting he had with ICE officials in DC in 2018 where GEO asked them for $$ and help killing lawsuits against the company.
Questions:
1. Has GEO gotten more favorable treatment than its market competitors -chiefly, CoreCivic-as a result of these transactional relationships? (We know if at least one demonstrable instance where it has.
2. What hasn’t the govt done that it might have, absent GEO’s $?
1. Has GEO gotten more favorable treatment than its market competitors -chiefly, CoreCivic-as a result of these transactional relationships? (We know if at least one demonstrable instance where it has.
2. What hasn’t the govt done that it might have, absent GEO’s $?
Full piece: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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