Louis DeJoy’s ugly endgame

| 10:30 pm EDT August 6, 2021
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By law the President of the United States can’t fire the Postmaster General, or else President Joe Biden would have had Louis DeJoy out on his butt a long time ago. Instead, Biden has been taking the numerous steps required to get enough people confirmed to the Postal Board who are willing to fire DeJoy. In the meantime, DeJoy appears to be going for broke.

Louis DeJoy is now having the Post Office give a huge contract to a company called XPO Logistics, which in turn just happens to pay a ton of money to Louis DeJoy. It’s a classic kickback scheme, and a particularly brazen one. Of course DeJoy knows his time is likely running short, so he’s presumably trying to cash in while he still can.

DeJoy isn’t just at risk of losing his job. In June it was established that the Department of Justice is criminally investigating him for a decade long pattern of clear-cut campaign finance felonies. There’s no way that any of this ends well for DeJoy, but he appears to be trying to steal what he can while he still can.