Company with ties to Trump's brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract
Source: Washington Post
A company in which President Trumps brother has a financial stake received a $33 million contract from the U.S. Marshals Service earlier this year, an award that has drawn protests from two other bidders, one of which has filed a complaint alleging possible favoritism in the bidding process.
The lucrative government contract, to provide security for federal courthouses and cell blocks, went to CertiPath, a Reston, Va.-based company that has since 2013 been owned in part by a firm linked to Robert S. Trump, the presidents younger brother.
After the contract was awarded, an anonymous rival bidder filed a complaint with the Justice Departments office of the inspector general, alleging that CertiPath failed to disclose that one of the Presidents closest living relatives stood to benefit financially from the transaction, according to a copy of the July 22 complaint letter obtained by The Washington Post.
The circumstances of this contract award, and what appear to be CertiPaths efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trumps financial interest in the company even as it trades on the Trump name, present the appearance of preferential treatment for those who are close to the President, said the complaint, which was sent by Venable, a Washington law firm, on behalf of the client. Dismas N. Locaria, a Venable lawyer who signed the complaint letter, declined to disclose the name of his client.A phone message left for Robert Trump through Trump Management, of which he is president, was not returned.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/company-with-ties-to-trumps-brother-robert-awarded-33-million-government-contract/2019/10/26/f67164d2-f688-11e9-829d-87b12c2f85dd_story.html
Grifters gonna grift.
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Besides the one that died.
CurtEastPoint
(18,652 posts)Rebl2
(13,529 posts)Thought the one that died was his only brother.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)2naSalit
(86,664 posts)from the goujliani butt dial? Was he thinking of shaking him down for >$100K? Hmmm...
BumRushDaShow
(129,165 posts)aeromanKC
(3,325 posts)Biden Jr's, that is.
(insert eye roll emoji here)
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)family resemblance. Same bushy eyebrows, same strange tRump mouth.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)during Watergate. Bribes, payola, illegal campaign contributions, kickbacks, etc.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)retired judge was very impressive. She was the keynote speaker at a legal convention I attended 25 years or so ago. Mommy didn't pay enough attention to Donnie apparently.
Mazeltov Cocktail
(569 posts)Robert was known in NY as the " Good Trump" he was married to Blaine Trump who was fairly socially prominent compared to Ivana. However, he had a girlfriend and Blaine had a horrible suicide attempt and like everything else about the Trumps, the whole situation turned to shit.
Robert has actually kept a low profile since then.
patphil
(6,186 posts)RudyColludie
(43 posts)I bet it was
Judi Lynn
(160,555 posts)From:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FunnyandSad/comments/7cdcq3/donald_trumps_brother_robert/
'He's a great sportsman': Trump's younger brother Robert vouches for the President's athleticism after POTUS claimed he could take 'Crazy Joe Biden' in a fight
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5534167/Trumps-younger-brother-Robert-calls-great-sportsman.html
BumRushDaShow
(129,165 posts)The OP linked article has one too but I stopped putting his pic in my LBN OPs. Can't stand to see that image.
Judi Lynn
(160,555 posts)Horrible knowing there's another one who looks so much like him. He looks every bit as dirty, too. Jeez.
Someone at a link mentioned he has the same facial tic on one wide of his mouth that makes it pull up.
They must have both been punched "too hard" (is that possible?) by their father!
So awful knowing there are two of them.
BumRushDaShow
(129,165 posts)(the oldest) but that one died back in the early '80s.
These were the 5 -
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,071 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,516 posts)Trump is a big fan or crony capitalism but he hates actual capitalism
Link to tweet
Trump called Mattis in summer 2018 and directed him to "screw Amazon" out of $10 billion cloud contract.
"Relaying the story to us during Small Group, Mattis said, 'We're not going to do that. This will be done by the book, both legally and ethically." https://taskandpurpose.com/snodgrass-mattis-book
Link to tweet
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If this was the result of Trumps interventionand we know be DID explicitly interveneits at least as bad as Ukraine. Its not $400 million but $10 billion in taxpayer funds held hostage to punish a newspapers exercise of core First Amendment rights.
Link to tweet
tclambert
(11,087 posts)He soundly condemned nepotism. Then he looked around and said, "What? Why is everyone staring at me? Have I got some lettuce stuck in my teeth?"