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Give a campaign $700,000. its either $700,000 is more important as we focus, because of thats not really his money thats going in there, then we have a serious campaign finance violation that is a crime. >> this is really, key and weve already seen complaints from watchdog groups before the general election alleging that this is not an illegitimate alone, from a candidate to his own campaign, rather its a form of donor scheme, masking many other people or entities, corporations, that may have co...

The wrong direction? its part of a ten-year plan from the postmaster general and trump administration holdover, louis dejoy. you might remember, you might remember him for his role of removing 10% of mail sorting machines just before the presidential elective -- election last, year despite the massive mail-in ballots. because people didnt want to leave, they wanted to vote by mail, because there is a global pandemic. or maybe remember him from the still ongoing fbi investigation into campaign fu...

Too? >> yeah, great question because its not illegal to have an obnoxious boss to say hey id like to everyone to give money to the election this year. what is illegal if you then reimburse them for it because again that money is coming from you for that election and yes indeed the employees have told the journalists and likely are telling the fbi the same thing. we got bonuses and incentive awards equivalent to the money we were told to donate. thats a donor scheme. thats illegal. >> so dejoy ha...

Possible scheme louis dejoy was involved in. essentially reimbursing his employees for political donations. thats what a couple of them alleged to us. what happens in cases like this is the fbi and justice department sees public recording of a possible donor scheme, seeing this and many other cases and say we want to look at this but we do now in the last couple of weeks, the fbi decided to do what they would call taking this thing over. they went out and talked to witnesses in the world who cou...

Ceos have gone to prison for schemes like that. last year "the washington post" reported for more than a decade, over 100 individuals at louis dejoys company contributed over $1 million to republican candidates on dejoys behalf. many of those seam employees had previously never donated and didnt again after leaving his company. employees recall feeling pressured to donate in order to please the boss. the director of human resources told "the washington post" quote, he asked employees for money. ...

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