PMG DeJoy
Last year I wrote an article giving my displeasure at the hiring of former President Trump’s administrations unethical involvement in hiring DeJoy. The backdoor inclusion at the 11th hour of picking a new PMG stunk to high heaven. At last someone is investigating the PMG and his “former” company with regards to the contracts signed and the money paid to them. Even after DeJoy has been hired as PMG, his company has recently been handed a multi-million dollar deal.
I still cannot apprehend how this man was hired. He has significant holdings of Amaazon stock. A major competitor to the USPS. If that is not a conflict of interest then I don’t know what is. He has run this company onto a sandbar and if we keep heading in this direction, we may all be working for Amazon in the future.
Below, I have enclosed an article written I found on the Postal News website. This article speaks for itself. I am happy someone, The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is finally looking into the dealings of DeJoy and the USPS. Even though “Ethics” and “Washington” in the same sentence seems to be an oxymoron, I still hope that they dig deep to reveal the real underhanded way he was hired. The USPS needs a new Postmaster General before this one destroys the service to the point of no return.
Judge: USPS must turn over DeJoy conflicts docs
A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
Over the past seven years, the USPS has reportedly paid approximately $286 million to XPO Logistics, DeJoy’s ex-employer, and has “ramped up its business” with the company since DeJoy’s appointment as Postmaster General. After his appointment, DeJoy continued to hold financial interests in XPO totaling between $30 and $75 million. DeJoy also held a significant amount of stock in Amazon, a major USPS competitor.
Following the USPS’s failure to turn over documents relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts of interest in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, CREW sued the agency. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted CREW summary judgment in full and “order[ed] USPS to produce the recusal documents as well as any non-exempt portions of the certificate of divestiture documents in a timely manner.” The judge cited a “strong public interest” in information relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts, which have been the focus of intense scrutiny by Congress and the press.
“This is a big win not just for CREW, but for transparency advocates everywhere,” CREW Communications Director Jordan Libowitz said. “DeJoy’s decision making as postmaster general has raised some serious ethical questions–now we should finally get some answers.”
