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christx30

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18. I mean, there is shady, then there is advanced shady.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 11:41 AM

Oct 2017

Wow. This is friggin' incredible. Who in the government agreed to this? Wait... nevermind. Too many names that would be this corrupt.
So Whitefish doesn't have to actually produce anything. The government doesn't have the right to look into how the money is being spent, and we have no way of pushing them to actually do anything. $300 million down the drain.

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Whitefish Energy contract bars government from auditing deal [View all] DonViejo Oct 2017 OP

Is it possible that those two employees Turbineguy Oct 2017 #1

Whitefish is essentially stealing. rockfordfile Oct 2017 #2

If they backed out now would they still keep the $300 mill? Wwcd Oct 2017 #3

Imagine what any electric company in America could do jmowreader Oct 2017 #20

Obsene...who made this deal??? Was it Trump himself? Stuart G Oct 2017 #4

Just like the phony "no bid" contracts during the illegal Iraq War.... Bengus81 Oct 2017 #5

Yeah PatSeg Oct 2017 #7

Trump drained the swamp and then filled it with raw sewage... Rollo Oct 2017 #24

STOP THIEF!!!!111 jpak Oct 2017 #6

Nice gift. dalton99a Oct 2017 #8

Sounds like they have a nice racket going for themselves. bluedigger Oct 2017 #9

And you damned well know that 45* will be getting a piece of that. groundloop Oct 2017 #11

Corruption you pay for. Benefitting the tRump-Republicon kleptocracy. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #10

We pay for it all --but this is as brazen as it gets. Right up there with KPN Oct 2017 #13

From simple capitalism to now Trumpism. KPN Oct 2017 #12

What moron in our fiscal conservative government agreed to this ? kacekwl Oct 2017 #14

Why is the Army Corp of Engineers not rebuilding this??? bottomofthehill Oct 2017 #15

The Army Corps of Engineers wont give Zinke and Trump their cut jmowreader Oct 2017 #21

Point taken bottomofthehill Oct 2017 #22

It just became clear why PR had such poor infrastructure - crooked Governor groundloop Oct 2017 #16

A new verb ... or hashtag, at minimum.... dobleremolque Oct 2017 #17

I mean, there is shady, then there is advanced shady. christx30 Oct 2017 #18

Wow...so Bettie Oct 2017 #19

This reminds me of the billion(s) in cash GWBush sent to Iraq that went missing diva77 Oct 2017 #23