DeJoy's Money Game

The controversy created by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy just gets bigger and bigger.  During his tenure at the Postal Service, he has diminished mail service all over the country, but it's his past as the CEO of a logistics company in his home state of North Carolina that has raised eyebrows.  The Washington Post recently reported that DeJoy forced employees to contribute money to Republican candidates for office, including Thom Tillis, North Carolina's junior U.S. Senator.  DeJoy would compensate for his strong-arming by reimbursing those employees with large bonuses. 

So what, you ask?  Well, even though the employees got their money back, the GOP candidates in North Carolina still got money they wouldn't have gotten otherwise, and the use of company funds to compensate the employees meant that it didn't cost DeJoy himself a cent.   

That's against the law. 

Plain and simple. 

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) has already called for action in response to the charges against DeJoy, which are not only highly credible but also highly unbecoming pf a Postmaster General.  "It demands a full and independent investigation, Schiff recently wrote.  "And [it] adds another compelling reason that Louis DeJoy should resign. Immediately."

And DeJoy might have to do just that.  North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, reacting to formal complaints regarding DeJoy's actions, may be  going ahead with an investigation very soon.

It's unclear whether DeJoy has perpetrated, or has attempted to perpetrate, a similar scheme in the Postal Service.  But this revelation should prove once and for all that the only place DeJoy belongs inside a post office is as a mug shot on the bulletin board.