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Fairly well known are the citations of Louis DeJoy’s financial “Conflicts of Interests” — reportedly in the neighborhood of $30-75 million in investments, in competitors of US Postal Service.
DeJoy and his wife Aldona Wos stand to make a significant profits — if the Post Office loses business. These financial “Conflicts of Interests” are perhaps best summarized by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW):
August 11, 2020
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has financial interest in USPS contractors that reportedly exceeds $30 million, raising questions of conflicts of interest. Additionally, DeJoy appears to continue to have unresolved conflicts with Amazon, a major USPS competitor. To date, the USPS has not released DeJoy’s ethics agreement, despite intense public interest in whether he will recuse himself from matters relating to those interests or whether he will divest them.
CREW has requested records from USPS asking for DeJoy’s ethics agreement, screening arrangement, and any other records related to his recusals or divestitures.
DeJoy is a Trump appointee who made over $2.2 million in political donations to the Republican National Convention and Trump campaign in 2016 alone. Given Trump’s continual bashing of voting by mail, DeJoy’s appointment raised concerns that he would implement measures that would make it harder for voters to vote by mail in November. These concerns have alarmingly manifested with recent reports that DeJoy administered policies that have slowed USPS operations—including mail delivery—and “reassigned or displaced” 23 USPS executives last week.
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What’s not so well known is the history Louis DeJoy’s political “Conflicts of Interests” — especially his apparent quid-pro-quo appointment as one of chief money-handlers for the RNC.
Back in 2017, DeJoy was ushered-in to this influential GOP position, along with the choice company of Michael Cohen and Elliot Broidy. Both of whom, have been chase out, by their own financial hush-money scandals, among other things.
The President, His Business Partner, and the Fundraiser
by Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, wnyc.org — May 25, 2017
It’s an oddity about covering President Trump’s potential conflicts of interest: certain names keeping coming up. For example, Elliott Broidy.
In April, the Republican National Committee announced the appointment of three national deputy finance chairmen: President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen, North Carolina businessman Louis DeJoy and Broidy.
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Several years later, Broidy is now one of the most significant fundraisers for the Republican National Committee. He was a major fundraiser for Trump’s inaugural committee. And during the presidential campaign, he raised money for Trump’s Victory Fund, a joint Trump/RNC fundraising committee.
This places Broidy, once convicted of bribing government officials to enrich his own company, in the position of soliciting giant donations for Republican causes and candidates. The inaugural committee, which is separate from the RNC and the presidential campaign, broke records for fundraising. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan OpenSecrets.org, most of the $107 million raised came from industries that stand to gain from Trump administration priorities.
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Of course, far from being a third wheel in that trio, Louis DeJoy parlayed his personal fortune funneled in Trump PACs and Inaugural funds, into a key fund-raising and favor-trading Chairmanship.
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Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman who is heading up fundraising for the 2020 Republican National Convention, was approved by the USPS Board of Governors to become "the first postmaster general in two decades who did not rise through the agency's ranks," The Washington Post reported.
DeJoy has given more than $2 million to the Trump campaign and Republican causes since 2016, according to the report, including $1 million to the Republican National Committee and $650,000 to the Trump Victory Fund.
www.salon.com — May 7, 2020
DeJoy Wos Family Foundation
Trump Megadonor in Charge of U.S. Postal Service Poses Grave Threat to U.S. Elections
Over decades, the Greensboro, North Carolina-based multimillionaire and former businessman and his wife, Aldona Wos, became one of the Republican Party’s most faithful megadonor couples. This partisan generosity has come with great reward. George W. Bush gave the Estonia ambassadorship to Wos, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory put Wos in charge of the state’s Health and Human Services department, and President Donald Trump made Wos the vice chair of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. Most recently, in February 2020, Trump nominated Wos for the Canadian ambassador post.
DeJoy and Wos have combined to donate nearly $4.6 million to federal candidates, PACs, and party committees since 1984. This includes $1.8 million to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and $1.3 million to Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee of the Trump campaign and the RNC, according to a CMD review of Federal Election Commission records. The couple has given $18,900 directly to Trump’s two presidential campaigns, and DeJoy donated $25,000 to the super PAC American Crossroads in 2016, when it bought ads attacking Hillary Clinton.
Because of DeJoy’s hefty donations, the GOP made him finance chair of this year’s Republican National Convention, and Trump tapped DeJoy to lead the ailing U.S. Postal Service, which is undergoing critical financial woes, amplified by the coronavirus. Republican lawmakers have refused to provide it with ample funding and pandemic relief.
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Louis DeJoy is just the kind of guy to carry out Trump’s scheme to back-log the Postal Service — no questions asked:
In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won't have the resources to handle a flood of ballots from voters who are seeking to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.
“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo. “That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting; they just can’t have it.”
www.klove.com — Aug 13, 2020
Louis DeJoy is just the kind of guy to get rid of 23 local Postal authorities, who might stand in his way of carrying out that Trump Postal Vote-rigging scheme …
Which in a nut-shell is this:
Late-delivered Ballots will not get counted.
Under-postage Ballots will not get delivered.
Alternative Drop-boxes too few and far apart — will not get fully utilized.
Welcome to Trump’s play-ground, America. Louis DeJoy is there to make sure, the Trump-Fun-house recess continues — unhindered and unaccountable to no one.
Not even the American voters. You know, the people they are supposed to be working for.
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“Appointed rounds” — <em>Whenever. If ever.</em> <b>Don’t bet on it.</b>
