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Too? >> yeah, great question because it's not illegal to have an obnoxious boss to say hey i'd 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. that's a donor scheme. that's illegal. >> so dejoy had to answer a question during the congressional hearing about this, about the campaign fund-rais...

Possible scheme louis dejoy was involved in. essentially reimbursing his employees for political donations. that's 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 could possibly tell their friend or reporters what happened. that led to dejoy finding out, themself s...

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 dejoy's company contributed over $1 million to republican candidates on dejoy's behalf. many of those seam employees had previously never donated and didn't 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. an s.e.c. lawyer called it a run of the mill, but very illegal donor scheme. another, quote, it's...

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