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The Department of Homeland Security tapped a little-known ad firm to produce Kristi Noems multimillion-dollar ad campaign during the government shutdown last year. But when asked to explain her rationale before a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday, Noem was practically speechless.
Reading off a DHS notice, Colorado Representative Joe Neguse noted that the department had identified just four companies out of the hundreds of thousands of companies in the United States as potential hires for the campaign.
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The money from Noems agency was funneling directly into the pockets of her friends and allies at the Strategy Group, a group with myriad ties to the exSouth Dakota governor, including having once employed her alleged beau (Corey Lewandowski) and a CEO who is married to Noems ex-chief DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Safe America Media, meanwhile, has no website, no experience, and quiet contracts. The only substantial evidence that the company actually exists at all is that it shares an address with a property owned by veteran Republican operative Michael McElwain.
More at:
https://newrepublic.com/post/207381/kristi-noem-explain-company-ad-campaign
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,858 posts)chicoescuela
(2,973 posts)is accused, but that wont happen.
Assholes
MIButterfly
(2,536 posts)It will be scandalous daily for weeks, if not months. They will clutch tbeir pearls and speak of nothing else. Shame, shame, shame.
When a Republican does it, it's nobody's business; nothing to see here; move along.
kerouac2
(1,478 posts)And the sad part is there will likely be zero consequences for the grifting that all of these Republicans are doing.
KS Toronado
(23,681 posts)"No republicon has ever done anything underhanded, and throw your facts away that's fake news"
surfered
(12,901 posts)progressoid
(53,039 posts)EOM
ashredux
(2,922 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,138 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(957 posts)...49,000?
At a time like this we've got to all pull together and get the DOW back over 50,000, and pointing out the insane corruption of one government contract certainly isn't helping that!
Eye on the ball guys!
SergeStorms
(20,403 posts)she won't. They're political cronies from her puppy shooting days in South Siberia. Payback for making her wealthy.
The level of criminality in tRump's administration is off the freaking charts!
mdbl
(8,527 posts)Johonny
(25,985 posts)That murdered her dogs, cheats on her husband, and steals pur tax dollars. But thats okay because she is willing to fucking cold blooded murder Americans and not give a fuck.
That's the only quality Trump wants. Heartless soulless murders.
dalton99a
(93,558 posts)Javaman
(65,579 posts)William Seger
(12,379 posts)
Quanto Magnus
(1,332 posts)but then she would have to tell the truth and that seems impossible for her.
OMGWTF
(5,077 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,425 posts)When the boss is the mist corrupt president in our history, his minions are free to enjoy their own corruption. Noem took her corruption to the extreme. She may no longer have her job, but I'm sure she has squirreled away millions of taxpayer dollars. Her replacement won't be any mire honest.
Wonder Why
(6,799 posts)stollen
(1,136 posts)"subcontractors are not required to be made public in federal contracting databases, effectively allowing the whopping taxpayer sum to vanish in an untraceable dark-money network."
How much $$ have taxpayers lost to black-op contractors? Did we ever track down the $2 billion Paul Bremer "lost" in Iraq?