Trump ally takes over crisis-ridden Postal Service as top Senate Democrat demands inquiry on hiring
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Source: Washington Post
“His financial interests in companies that have business ties with the Postal Service, as well as his extensive campaign fundraising efforts, also raise concerns regarding whether and how legal prohibitions on his ethical conflicts of interest and partisan political activity as a federal employee will be addressed,” Schumer wrote to Duncan, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Washington Post.
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DeJoy and his wife, Aldona Wos, the ambassador-nominee to Canada, have between $30.1 million and $75.3 million in assets in USPS competitors or contractors, according to Wos’s financial disclosure paperwork filed with the Office of Government Ethics. Postal Service mail processing contractor XPO Logistics — which acquired DeJoy’s company New Breed Logistics in 2014 — represents the vast majority of those holdings. Their combined stake in competitors UPS and trucking company J.B. Hunt is roughly $265,000.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/15/trump-postal-service-dejoy/
So the guy with financial stakes with UPS is running the Post Office. What could possible go wrong.
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Link is dated June 15, 2020 at 5:00 a.m. MDT
