Trump administration showers Brazilian crooks with $62M bailout money meant for US farmers..

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The Trump administration has forked over more than $62 million — taxpayer cash that was supposed to be earmarked for struggling American farmers — to a massive meatpacking company owned by a couple of corrupt Brazilian brothers.The Department of Agriculture cut a contract in January to purchase $22.3 million worth of pork from plants operated by JBS USA, a Colorado-based subsidiary of Brazil’s JBS SA, which ranks as the largest meatpacker in the world.

The bailout raised eyebrows from industry insiders at the time, as it was sourced from a $12 billion program meant for American farmers harmed by President Trump’s escalating trade war with China and other countries.But previously undisclosed purchase reports obtained by the Daily News this week reveal the administration has since issued at least two more bailouts to JBS, even as Trump’s own Justice Department began investigating the meatpacker, whose owners are Joesley and Wesley Batista — two wealthy brothers who have confessed to bribing hundreds of top officials in Brazil.

Both brothers have spent time in jail over the sweeping corruption scandal.Local prosecutors rescinded the Batistas’ plea deals last year after accusing them of withholding evidence. The seedy brothers aren’t allowed to leave Brazil as their complex cases go to court.

The Justice Department, meanwhile, is probing JBS for possible violations in the U.S. of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to filings in an unrelated court case reviewed by The News. Reuters reported in December that Justice Department investigators interviewed the Batistas in Brazil late last year as part of that investigation.Nonetheless, Trump’s Agriculture Department issued $14.5 million in bailout cash for pork products from JBS in February and another $25.6 million earlier this month, totaling more than $62.4 million, according to the purchase reports.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-trump-administration-bailout-farmers-brazilian-criminals-20190516-6rdb3ithvfec7fttem7qrny54y-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3b2VrS3-XX5Cn-DcjnbGNNtcFyzrrjy7l68bvVkH3Z7XZwbwv-1nceNS8

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1. Must be Trump donors

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Just so folks have a idea

who JBS Meats operating Labels are. Swift Meats,Eldridge Meats and Sausage. And they operate under various local Processing Labels. Colorado Beef Industries has been in the news due to E-Coli and other issues like a Lady falling in to a Meat Chopper.

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3. That means he will likely lose

Farm belt votes which are mostly red States.

[kacekwl]

4. No because they have no idea what's up.

But we should wait to impeach. What is this, number 200 impeachable offenses.

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. What the fuckery. Someone needs to stop this.