(Tea Party PAC) – According to WND, an investigation that was carried out by the Daily Mail, a news publication based in the United Kingdom, reveals that Pete Buttigieg, who currently serves as Joe Biden’s transportation chief, actually took $250,000 in campaign donations from individuals and companies that later received a massive $33 million in city contracts while he was the mayor in South Bend, Indiana.

One example of this favoritism is the Troyer Group who donated $9,000 to the campaign and ended up getting contracts worth $1.7 million. Donations totaling around $8,100 from Walsh & Kelly were then followed by the company receiving $7.6 million in city contracts.

A company called Selge Construction donated $4,250 and ended up with contracts that were worth more than $4 million just landing in their lap.

“The investigation showed that Buttigieg’s political action committees got money from 23 companies ‘who then got jobs from South Bend’s Board of Public Works.’ Sometimes those donations and contracts happened on the same day,” WND said.

“The investigation said the companies, or their executives and their spouses, turned over $253,750 to Buttigieg’s campaigns, and then got “at least $33,310,426″ in city contracts between 2011 and 2019,” the report stated.

“Government watchdogs say the pattern of donations and contracts could present the appearance of a ‘pay to play’ scandal – and raises concerns over the $210 billion earmarked in the bipartisan infrastructure bill for Buttigieg to dish out in discretionary grants as transport secretary, part of a $1.2 trillion budget,” the Daily Mail said in its report.

David Williams, who is part of an organization called Taxpayers Protection Alliance, spoke with the publication where he said, “The pattern of contracts and donations appears to be a huge conflict of interest. This really doesn’t bode well for the secretary of transportation when he has access to almost $1.2 trillion in infrastructure money. ‘This is alarming, and very concerning, because this is the swamp personified. You don’t have to be a Rhodes Scholar to look at this and think that something’s wrong here.”

The Daily Mail then stated that the response received from South Bend officials was that Buttigieg didn’t give the contracts and all of them were handled “through a professional procurement process that is public and transparent.”

“But the report also confirmed the 40-year-old, who was appointed by Joe Biden to the federal post last year, ‘cultivated close relationships with construction firms during his tenure in South Bend, which became a large source of funding for his political campaigns,'” the report noted.

“Buttigieg, whose own campaign for the Democrat nomination to be president collapsed, received $1,500 for a mayoral campaign in 2011 from Marlin Knowles, a co-owner of American Structurepoint. In November 2012, Buttigieg appointed Structurepoint executive Eric Horvath as chief of the city’s Public Works agency, and the following year the company got a contract for a Smart Streets Project, the report found,” WND reported.

“Between January 2014 and March 2019, senior executive vice president at the company, Greg Henneke, donated $31,850 to Mayor Pete’s campaigns. Over the same period, the company was awarded more than $790,000 in city contracts by the BPW, on which Buttigieg sat and former Structurepoint executive Horvath is executive director,” the Daily Mail pointed out.

“American Structurepoint was given $98,860 in two contracts on February 14, 2017, just one day after Henneke donated $1,000 to Buttigieg’s campaign to become Democratic National Committee chair, Pete For DNC,” WND reported.

The Daily Mail did quote a “source” who stated that a few of the donors “”lost contract bids while Buttigieg was mayor, and others … worked on projects like the Smart Sewers program that saved the city hundreds of millions of dollars.”

The report then stated that documentation for donors to the campaigns wasn’t saved.

The Daily Mail then reported that Scott Greytak, who works for Transparency International, stated that “At the federal level, this would be entirely illegal. A federal contractor cannot make a contribution to a candidate, because of the obvious conflict of interest.”

The Department of Transportation then went on to tell the Daily Mail that “Sec. Buttigieg knows that the American people have put their faith in the Biden-Harris Administration to responsibly deliver the benefits of the [infrastructure bill] — and that’s exactly what he will do.”

Is there no end to the corruption of the Democratic Party? Their hands are so filthy with abuse of political power they will never be able to wash them clean again.

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