In 2023, while Kristi Noem was governor of South Dakota, she supplemented her income by secretly accepting a cut of the money she raised for a nonprofit that promotes her political career, tax records show.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement, the nonprofit routed funds to a personal company of Noem’s that had recently been established in Delaware. The payment totaled $80,000 that year, a significant boost to her roughly $130,000 government salary. Since the nonprofit is a so-called dark money group — one that’s not required to disclose the names of its donors — the original source of the money remains unknown.
In civilized countries, this kind of corruption sinks politicians.
For a Trump admin position, though, this goes at the top of your CV.
Grifters gonna’ grift.
“Developed new scheme to receive kickbacks.”
Probably how she got the job.
Can you give me some examples of these civilized countries you speak of? Because from all the countries i have a rough idea of their politics off, i remember similarly egregious corruption cases, and in the case of my country, Germany, the blatant corruption often is legal.
i remember similarly egregious corruption cases
The fact that those were cases at all, and this is going to be just a footnote in the news should be a big hint that other places take it a bit more seriously.
Not seriously enough, but a bit more
“Cases” as in aware to the public, not crimincal cases. A “case” as in an “occurence”, like a “case study” can study all sorts of things, not just a proceeding in front of a court.
Ah, nevermind then.
Very recent example is Le Pen who got jail time and ban from running for office because of very similar embezzlement.
I enjoy that you basically called your own country uncivilized though!
Well, we had politicians making dozens of millions through organizing deals for medical masks during the pandemic that were billions too expensive.
In ome case the court ruled that this is legal as the corruption laws only cover if the politician is using the power of his mandate, not the power of the contacts he has through his mandate. The court wrote into the decision though that it is unfathomable, why the law does not criminalize such corruption. It is extremy rare that a court would make a suggestion as to what the law should say.
The former longest “serving” mep and minister in multiple ministries including thr ministry of finance Wolfgang Schäuble was involved in a scandal in the 90s where he transported literal suit cases full of cash for an unknown donor to his party.
Germany is a banana republic that has to import its bananas overseas.
There was a German-Canadian Airbus scandal, but that ended with the scandalized Prime Minister getting a settlement from the government for defamation. So I guess that doesn’t really count.
In what experts described as a highly unusual arrangement
Oh, that’s what we’re calling blatantly illegal actions now.
A couple mis-truths and some highly unusual arrangements, all very legal and very cool.
