Weeks after Trump said he was replacing her, Kristi Noem's Homeland Security Department agreed to buy five planes from a firm run by one of her donors, at prices aviation experts say were millions above market. The luxury 737 comes with a bar, two bedrooms and a manta-ray-skin table.
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Carlos Gimenez's administration, while he was Miami-Dade mayor, quietly extended a $130 million airport contract for MCM just months after the company's pedestrian bridge collapsed in Miami and killed six people.
The Army cancelled more orders of an armored truck it called 'excess.' Congress put $345 million back. Afterward, the truck maker's executives and PAC sent tens of thousands to Susan Collins, who chairs Senate Appropriations, and Ken Calvert, who chairs the House defense spending subcommittee.
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Max Miller is under House Ethics investigation for domestic violence, after his ex-wife accused him of throwing scalding water on her, putting a gun to her head, and breaking their toddler's collarbone.
MCM built the FIU pedestrian bridge that fell onto traffic in March 2018. The firm is run by cousins of Gimenez's wife, and both of his sons have worked for it. In early 2019, months after OSHA cited MCM and as the firm went bankrupt, Mayor Gimenez's administration extended MCM's $130 million contract at Miami International Airport.
His own financial disclosure shows a $145,902 Miami fire pension and a $79,751 Florida state pension. His wife draws a third. In January he qualified for a fourth, from Congress. As Miami-Dade mayor, he proposed cutting fire trucks while drawing the fire pension, and got commissioners to approve his own 67% raise, which grew his pension.
Veterans Guardian charges disabled veterans for help the VA gives free, and a federal judge has ruled it broke federal law. In March its two founders gave $88,600 to Dan Sullivan's joint fundraising committee, which passed the money to the Senate Republicans' campaign arm. One founder has also given Sullivan's own campaign $6,000.
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Kevin Hern pushed hard to make sure franchise owners got special carve-outs in pandemic bailout loans.
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Brian Fitzpatrick is flooding the airwaves with attack ads that quote local "news" headlines to smear his opponent.