When President Donald Trump’s administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, … it handed the project on a military base to a small business that … lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Likely 445m of that just went to pockets. The infrastructure shown there was in the thousands, not hundreds of millions.

    It’s all grift.

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      6 days ago

      It’s not like they need the funds to build it. If it’s anything like the gulag in Florida it’ll be shuddered only months after construction.