A $915 million contract awarded to Salus Worldwide Solutions for ‘self-deportation’ services faces legal challenge for lacking transparency and following unlawful procurement procedures. The firm has connections to senior DHS officials, and bids were restricted to select companies for …
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Project On Government Oversight revealed that Ballard Partners—the lobbying firm that employed Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—secured lucrative no-bid ICE contracts for clients providing controversial biometric surveillance technology. In August, …
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IRG Global Emergency Management donated $10,000 to the Florida GOP on June 24, 2025, and received a $1.1 million Alligator Alcatraz contract hours later. Within a week, the company secured two additional contracts totaling $5.1 million for shuttle transportation, emergency services, and air …
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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. …
ICE awarded a $3.8 billion contract to Deployed Resources on April 10 for Fort Bliss tent detention camp, then terminated it three days later “for convenience” amid corruption allegations. The contract was then awarded to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a tiny Virginia company with no …
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Phlow Corporation, incorporated just months before, received an $812 million pharmaceutical manufacturing contract without competitive bidding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump adviser Peter Navarro told officials ‘my head is going to explode if this contract does not get immediately …
Fisher Sand & Gravel received over $2 billion in border wall contracts after CEO Tommy Fisher appeared on Fox News over 20 times lobbying Trump directly, despite the company’s history of tax fraud and environmental violations. Senator Kevin Cramer personally lobbied Trump for Fisher at a …
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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Halliburton subsidiary KBR received 9.5 billion in Iraq War contracts, including a billion no-bid ‘Restore Iraqi Oil’ contract awarded March 8, 2003. Vice President Dick Cheney, Halliburton’s former CEO (1995-2000), maintained financial ties through 98,548 in deferred compensation …
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Halliburton subsidiary KBR was secretly awarded a $7 billion no-bid contract to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure, just days before the invasion began. The contract was awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers without competitive bidding, citing ’emergency circumstances.’ Vice …
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