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BumRushDaShow

(129,165 posts)
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 01:52 PM Oct 2019

Company with ties to Trump's brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract

Source: Washington Post

A company in which President Trump’s 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 president’s younger brother.

After the contract was awarded, an anonymous rival bidder filed a complaint with the Justice Department’s office of the inspector general, alleging that CertiPath failed to disclose that “one of the President’s 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 CertiPath’s efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trump’s 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.
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Company with ties to Trump's brother Robert awarded $33 million government contract (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 OP
That thing has a BROTHER? I knew he had a spawn sister. CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 #1
I thought it was just me. I had no idea he had a brother. Glimmer of Hope Oct 2019 #3
They breed like roaches. Vermin. CurtEastPoint Oct 2019 #4
Same here Rebl2 Oct 2019 #22
Relentlessly crooked empedocles Oct 2019 #2
So is this the Robert 2naSalit Oct 2019 #5
LOL BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #6
But his board position aeromanKC Oct 2019 #7
There is a stong Scarsdale Oct 2019 #21
Lucky them. keithbvadu2 Oct 2019 #8
Dick Nixon's brother and nephew got into hot water with Howard Hughes, BeBe Rebozo, and Robert Vesco Mc Mike Oct 2019 #9
Trump's brother keeps a low profile and seems somewhat normal compared to Dotard. His sister the Pepsidog Oct 2019 #10
There are 2 sisters and a brother. Mazeltov Cocktail Oct 2019 #11
Could the Robert on the Giuliani butt call be Robert Trump? patphil Oct 2019 #12
good catch! RudyColludie Oct 2019 #13
Had to find Robert's picture: Judi Lynn Oct 2019 #14
Thanks! BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #15
Aw, missed it, ran out of free turns for the month at the WP. Judi Lynn Oct 2019 #18
There used to be another brother BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #20
Nepotism has its privilege Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2019 #16
Trump called Mattis in 2018 and directed him to "screw Amazon" out of $10 billion cloud contract mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 #17
But Donald Trump Jr. says you shouldn't profit off the family name. tclambert Oct 2019 #19

2naSalit

(86,664 posts)
5. So is this the Robert
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 02:24 PM
Oct 2019

from the goujliani butt dial? Was he thinking of shaking him down for >$100K? Hmmm...

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
9. Dick Nixon's brother and nephew got into hot water with Howard Hughes, BeBe Rebozo, and Robert Vesco
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 04:28 PM
Oct 2019

during Watergate. Bribes, payola, illegal campaign contributions, kickbacks, etc.

Pepsidog

(6,254 posts)
10. Trump's brother keeps a low profile and seems somewhat normal compared to Dotard. His sister the
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 04:52 PM
Oct 2019

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)
11. There are 2 sisters and a brother.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 04:59 PM
Oct 2019

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.

BumRushDaShow

(129,165 posts)
15. Thanks!
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 07:09 PM
Oct 2019

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)
18. Aw, missed it, ran out of free turns for the month at the WP.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:56 PM
Oct 2019

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)
20. There used to be another brother
Sun Oct 27, 2019, 04:29 AM
Oct 2019

(the oldest) but that one died back in the early '80s.

These were the 5 -

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,516 posts)
17. Trump called Mattis in 2018 and directed him to "screw Amazon" out of $10 billion cloud contract
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 08:30 PM
Oct 2019
HumanScumHat Retweeted

Trump is a big fan or crony capitalism but he hates actual capitalism



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



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If this was the result of Trump’s intervention—and we know be DID explicitly intervene—it’s at least as bad as Ukraine. It’s not $400 million but $10 billion in taxpayer funds held hostage to punish a newspaper’s exercise of core First Amendment rights.


tclambert

(11,087 posts)
19. But Donald Trump Jr. says you shouldn't profit off the family name.
Sat Oct 26, 2019, 11:16 PM
Oct 2019

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?"

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