ICE-contracted private prison company made potentially illegal donation to GOP governor's PAC
The state he is running to represent in the U.S. Senate has one of the largest ICE detention centers in the nation.
REBEKAH ENTRALGO
JUL 24, 2018, 10:35 AM
The largest private prison company in the nation may have made an illegal donation to New Republican PAC, a super PAC supporting Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s (R) campaign for Senate, according to an investigative report by MapLight in collaboration with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
In April, the Boca Raton-based GEO group donated $125,000 to New Republican PAC through a company subsidiary. Campaign finance experts claim the donation violates a longstanding ban on political contributions by federal contractors.
“In my book, this is a violation of the pay-to-play law,” said Craig Holman, an ethics advocate at Public Citizen told MapLight. “You can’t let subsidiaries get around what is illegal for the parent corporation to do. Otherwise you just essentially throw the law out.”
GEO group operates 141 prisons in the country and is the biggest contractor of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement (ICE), with $471 million — nearly half of $1 billion — in federal ICE contracts. Some of the largest and most dangerous ICE detention centers are operated by GEO. The GEO facility outside of Los Angeles, Adelanto Detention Center, was named the “deadliest ICE detention center of 2017,” after a third immigrant died in the facility’s custody in 2017.
https://thinkprogress.org/ice-private-prison-company-illegal-donation-republican-governor-adc4c06195c8/
Just like Medicaid bilking right, .................. Rick Scott you were right in the middle of that scam.......................you just break the laws..............
solution:
https://www.nelsonforsenate.com/
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