so the postal service is doing more business with the company that pays him what it does well. he s running the postal service. oh. and to top it all off, he is currently right now under fbi investigation for an alleged brazen illegal campaign donation scheme. former employees dcribe to the washington post where he allegedly pressured employees to make donations to republican candidates of his choosing. he would then reimburse those employees for their, quote, donations. that s called a sprawl donor scheme and that is very much against the law. how can this guy still be running the postal service? it is true president biden cannot hire him directly. he reports to a postaloard of directors. the chair of that board who has backed louis dejoy and all of his plans to make the postal service worse. the chair is the head of an investment firm from which louis dejoy purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of
service was preparing to handle time sensitive mail-in ballots for the presidential election. but you know, during the time he s been in charge, his own former company has done well and he s done well personally. the u.s. post office ramped up its business with a logistics company that louis dejoy used to run and continue to pay him millions of dollars in his ongoing investments and contracts with him. so the postal service is going more business with the company that pays him what it does well. he s running the postal service. oh. and to top it all off, he is currently right now under fbi investigation for an alleged brazen illegal campaign donation scheme. former employees describe to the washington post where he pressured his employees to make donations to republican candidates of his choosing and he would reimburse them.
i m just asking a question. the answer is no. so you did not bonus or reward any of your executives no. anyone that you solicited for contribution to the trump campaign? no, sir. so all of our i m fully aware of legal campaign contributions. well, what if your i resent the assertion. what are you accusing me of. i resent the assertion. what are you accusing me of? that indignant man is louis dejoy. since the trump administration he has been in charge of the post office. in that job he has been working hard as he can to screw up the u.s. post office. what he was indignant about is an allegation that he had run an illegal campaign donation scheme where his employees made political doe neighs in their own name buck dejoy basically reimbursed them with money through his own company. if that happened, that s illegal.
that part of the search warrant application was redacted. i m going to talk about that in a second. thank you both for joining me tonight. for more on what these tell us about the overall probe, i m joined by the former attorney for the southern district. on what matt just said, so there s an entire section. the one thing we thought was wrapped up in a neat bow was the illegal campaign donation scheme he s already pleaded guilty to. there s an entire section that s under the heading illegal campaign contribution scheme. it s 18 pages and we don t get to see it. what do you make of that? usually when something is redacted in a release wliek this, the yuls assumption is there s investigation still ongoing. so my take away is there s more conduct or both and the reason
there s an entire section. the one thing we thought was wrapped up in a neat bow was the illegal campaign donation scheme he s already pleaded guilty to. there s an entire section that s under the heading illegal campaign contribution scheme. it s 18 pages and we don t get to see it. what do you make of that? usually when something is redacted in a release wliek this, the yuls assumption is there s investigation still ongoing. so my take away is there s more conduct or both and the reason we re learning about that now is these redactions were necessary in the points of view of special counsel office lawyers to protect the ongoing investigation. some things have been farmed out and some things haven t. we don t know what really has been retained. although we know the manafort prosecution was retained.