Why didn’t the reporter immediately follow up his answer with something like “are you also looking for fraud within the Trump administration?”
Rick Scott to name one
Q: If the administration has declared on waste and fraud, could you explain the $420 million overpayment for a prison in Appleton, MN, when they company offered it to the state for $75m?
BESSENT: I don’t know anything about that. That’s a waste of our time.
Q&A moment headline refers to
Payment was to CoreCivic per this article. Seems to dovetail with overzealous militias like ICE.
How the fuck does a prison have a revenue of over 2 billion dollars. Holy shit America.
Slavery
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in Nashville, Tennessee, on January 28, 1983, by Thomas W. Beasley, Robert Crants and T. Don Hutto.[18] Beasley served as the chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party; Crants was the chief financial officer of a real estate company in Nashville; Hutto was the president-elect of the American Correctional Association, and according to a 2018 Time investigation, ran a Manhattan-sized Tennessee cotton plantation where Black convicts picked cotton for no pay.
Oh right, how could I forget.
and according to a 2018 Time investigation, ran a Manhattan-sized Tennessee cotton plantation where Black convicts picked cotton for no pay.
fuckin…what!!!
please tell me that was closed down in the 60s and 2018 was just when the article ran?
Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatles’ “All you need is love” was a hit, but the men in the fields sang songs with lyrics like “Old Master don’t you whip me, I’ll give you half a dollar.” Hutto’s family lived on the plantation and even had a “house boy,” an unpaid convict who served them.
That whole article is worth a read.
Haha nope, still going. The guards are on horses and have whips and everything, it’s surreal
As the article points out, CoreCivic is making money because of the regime’s anti-immigrant policies and they donated $500,000 to Trump.
They also paid exactly $420 million more. These guys can’t help memeing, even when they are grifting.
It’s like the worst parts of 4-Chan from 2010 are now running the government.
Ding ding ding…im sure Herr Miller was on 4chan around that time period.
Could also be the AI chatbots they’re using to “phone it in” include a lot of 4chan in their training data
