Discussion: Startup With 1st Trump Wall Contract Is Owned By Firm Accused Of Shady Billing

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Doesn’t even move the meter…

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the first border wall construction project under President Donald Trump is the offshoot of a construction firm that was sued repeatedly for failing to pay subcontractors

I wonder if the executive vice president’s name is Eric?

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Truly shocking…

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I bet if you look far enough Jared’s 3rd cousin is in there someplace

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Another that doesn’t move the surprise meter (insider trading):

Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped $31.3 million of crane builder Manitowoc stock (dependent on cheap steel) about a week before Trump announced Steel tariffs. Manitowoc stock took a dive after the announcement. Icahn had not bought or sold Manitowoc stock for several years prior.

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“…instead of Edgewood, New York-based Coastal Environmental Group, which online government documents list as its owner.”
Let’s see, lucrative, wall-building contracts awarded through a seemingly opaque bidding process to a stand in for a NYC area construction company known for stiffing subcontractors and other shady business practices. What are the plausible odds that there’s some connection between Coastal’s principals and the Trump organization?

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Calling Robert Mueller!

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Sometimes walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep

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Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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Anything associated with Drumpf draws grifters like shit draws flies.

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Sounds like just the kind of company the Donald would like.

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SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won
the $11 million federal contract in November as part of a project to
replace a little more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of a current fence

Let’s see, two miles for $11 million. That works out to be $5.5 million/mile. And how many miles of fence/wall is Drumpf planning to build?

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Indeed. It’s obviously based on a Trump U. business model.

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伊万卡说我们在加州赚了很多钱。必须支付她一个小时5美元。
It’s a good one. lol
nobody played, boo

Ivanka said we make a lot of money in California. She has to pay us $ 5 an hour.

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SWF Constructors, which lists just one employee in its Omaha office, won the $11 million federal contract in November as part of a project to replace a little more than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of a current fence with post-style barriers 30 feet (9.1 meters) high in Calexico, California.

That’s nothing! You should have seen what we snagged with no prior experience and hardly any employees!
-Whitefish Energy, Friends of Ryan Zinke

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In a better world, the SEC would eviscerate Icahn & his co-conspirator for this.

Thank you for sharing this.

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I assume the company will be billing Mexico directly, given that we were assured that they’d be paying for it…

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Vice president of Shady Billing, LLC, is in fact Eric.

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…have some power other than a slap on the wrist size fines and an admonishment “Bad Company ,Bad Company”
Remind me again how many wall street bandits went to jail for causing the crash …

Oh never mind I know
It was none
They have no power and headed by an ex Wall street lawyer who has worked for many of the firms he is monitoring
When Trump’s SEC punishes Wall Street, it’s often done quietly
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-trump-sec-wall-street-20180219-story.html

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