How Trump’s Meme Coin Enables Corruption—Even Without a Direct Payoff
A watchdog group says that Trump’s crypto token enables anyone to “effectively bribe the president.”
By David Moore, readsludge.com
A reader wrote in with questions about President Trump’s cryptocurrency meme coin and how it could be used for unseemly influence, so today I wanted to highlight an aspect of Trump’s latest crypto venture that’s gotten some mentions in the political press, but could use even more awareness…
Prison Company Banking on ICE Raids Donated to Trump Inauguration
CoreCivic gave to the Trump inaugural committee as it was ramping up its capacity to help the administration detain immigrants for profit.
By Donald Shaw
Among his barrage of day-one executive orders, President Trump signed a measure reversing a Biden administration policy that barred contracts between the Department of Justice and private detention centers. The executive order will affect contracts with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals Service, which combined currently have more than 200,000 people in their custody.
The largest federal prison contractor, the GEO Group, was a large donor to Trump’s campaign, and now a new federal filing shows that the second-largest one, CoreCivic, is a major inaugural donor. According to a lobbying disclosure posted yesterday, CoreCivic donated $500,000 to the Trump Vance Inaugural Committee on Dec. 19…
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