ICE terminated a $72.9 million no-bid contract with Universal Strategic Advisors after competitor protests exposed “improper influence” in securing the deal. The company’s executives, Brian DeMore and David Marin, were previously sued for fabricating criminal evidence while at DHS. …
In June 2020, NPR analysis revealed that the federal government had awarded over 250 COVID-19 related contracts worth more than $1 million each without full competitive bidding, totaling billions of dollars in federal spending. Many contracts went to companies with no experience in medical …
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Whitefish Energy, a Montana company with only two full-time employees from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown, received a $300 million no-bid contract to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria. The contract prohibited government auditing of costs while charging $462 …
Hurricane Katrina became the largest implementation of ‘disaster capitalism’ in U.S. history, with corporate interests using the crisis to advance privatization agendas previously blocked. Within 10 days of the levees breaking, .4 billion in no-bid contracts were awarded to four major …
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), subsidiary of Halliburton, a $7 billion no-bid contract for Iraqi oil infrastructure restoration, demonstrating systematic corporate-state fusion beyond WHIG’s media coordination template. Internal Pentagon emails reveal …
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