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A bit removed from the average mailman’s digs, Trump’s postmaster general Louis DeJoy and his wife bought this Greensboro, NC, outhouse for $5.9 million in 2004 from the creditors of a disgraced insurance executive (read his story here) who bought it for $2.2 million in 1992 from the Cone family, for whom it was built in 1936, who owned a textile empire employing over 10,000 workers that supplied fabric for Levis jeans.
The DeJoys have used it for GOP fundraising events whose legality is now being questioned (story here and here), i.e., DeJoy allegedly pressured employees of his company to make campaign donations, then reimbursed them with bonuses, which violates federal and state laws. DeJoy denies doing anything illegal.
Meanwhile, his cost-cutting measures at the post office have slowed mail delivery, which Democrats suspect is designed to block mail voting in the 2020 elections (see related articles here and here).
Update (9/8/20): The USPS refused to release DeJoy’s appointments calendar in response to congressional and media requests, saying it’s “personal,” even though it’s on a government calendar. Read this story here.
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