Judge: USPS Must Turn Over Dejoy Conflicts Docs

[Galraedia]

A federal judge ruled last night that the US Postal Service must give Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington documents about potential conflicts of interest by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

Over the past seven years, the USPS has reportedly paid approximately $286 million to XPO Logistics, DeJoy’s ex-employer, and has “ramped up its business” with the company since DeJoy’s appointment as Postmaster General. After his appointment, DeJoy continued to hold financial interests in XPO totaling between $30 and $75 million. DeJoy also held a significant amount of stock in Amazon, a major USPS competitor.

Following the USPS’s failure to turn over documents relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts of interest in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, CREW sued the agency. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted CREW summary judgment in full and “order[ed] USPS to produce the recusal documents as well as any non-exempt portions of the certificate of divestiture documents in a timely manner.” The judge cited a “strong public interest” in information relating to DeJoy’s potential conflicts, which have been the focus of intense scrutiny by Congress and the press.

“This is a big win not just for CREW, but for transparency advocates everywhere,” CREW Communications Director Jordan Libowitz said. “DeJoy’s decision making as postmaster general has raised some serious ethical questions–now we should finally get some answers.”

Read more: https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/press-releases/judge-usps-must-turn-over-dejoy-conflicts-docs/

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

RFN!

[Champp]

2. Special Delivery to the Slammer

[Dan]

3. "....Timely manner."

Sort of like with ‘all deliberate speed..’. Will take forever.

[leftieNanner]

4. He will pull a Trump

Delay, counter sue, appeal.....

I'm glad the judge ruled that way. CREW is not to be messed with! They will keep on this.

[hlthe2b]

5. Thank heavens for CREW...

kudos

[Old Okie]

30. Crew

Well, we can all help by donating to CREW and the ACLU since they are actually doing something. I have done so in the past and will do so again because of the good work they are doing.

[PortTack]

6. Anybody but me remember when dotard decided to slow down the mail, but said amazon pkgs

We’re NOT to be held up. I know I was not the only one to wonder..why? He hates bezos. Well here it is.

Everywhere one looks, everywhere one turns there’s still a big steaming pile from tfg.. on I do so despise the entire clan

[littlemissmartypants]

17. If he hates Bezos wouldn't they have been ordered to slow Amazon down?

Am I reading this wrong? Seems like it should be the other way around...

[PortTack]

19. Tfg does really despise bezos. He said not to slow amazon pkgs because his pal dejoyless had

Several million dollars of amazon stock. In other words, you slow the mail down so for me so I can win the election and I’ll give you the green lite to keep amazon pkgs on time.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. So tfg hates Bezos so Dejoy cut him some slack?

Still doesn't compute but I'll take your word for it.

Honestly, I've been feeling confused since yesterday. I hope I'm not going to have a stroke or something. I just haven't felt right. I was going to take my blood pressure but my automatic BP thing has dead batteries and I can't get it open to change them.

[Hoyt]

7. Post Office was using XPO since at least 2014 (when Obama was Prez).

https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2020/09/03/postal-service-paid-dejoy-s-former-company.html

[Kingofalldems]

8. So?

[Hoyt]

10. So, the USPS has always used help during peak times and there

is a lot less “conflict,” maybe none, than some people realize. But, I get facts don’t seem to matter.

[Kingofalldems]

15. I worked there for 35 yrs.

Are you an expert on the USPS?

[Hoyt]

16. Apparently know some things that you don't.

Today’s PO is a lot different, even much different from when I road with my granddad on his rural route in the 1950s.

[Orrex]

23. Although we appreciate that your interpretation supersedes everyone else's...

It's worth mentioning that the conflict doesn't arise simply from the fact of the USPS partnering with other entities but rather from a specific set of USPS policies that hugely benefit one other entity while the Postmaster General maintains a massive financial stake in that entity.


But I'm sure that your grandad explained all of that to you 70 years ago.

[Orrex]

28. Well, the forcible dismantling of mail sorting machines during peak season, for one.

Look, this is all pretty straightforward and obvious to pretty much everyone who's looking at it, which is why the lawsuit was filed to obtain the documents.

In your view, has DeJoy done nothing that suggests a conflict of interest or an intent to enrich himself?

[PortTack]

11. post #6. If it were completely innocent why did he hang on to his holdings, and why did

Tfg green light amazon pkgs, when everything else was being slow walked?!

[Hoyt]

13. Don't think TFG green lighted Amazon packages. trump actually hates Bezos

and wanted to increase charges to Amazon.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/11/usps-proposes-amazon-pay-up-to-12-percent-more-for-shipping.html

Where did you get information?

BTW, XPO is not a competitor of the USPS. The USPS is a large customer. XPO does better when the Post Office does better, not if it fails.

[PortTack]

21. It is hard to read between the lines

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/13/elizabeth-warren-wants-probe-of-amazon-options-held-by-postal-chief-dejoy.html

[Hoyt]

27. Over a year ago. My bet is Warren dropped it when she found out the options were covered calls

and not very likely DeJoy will make money off those.

You'll have to read up on that yourself because it's too late for me.

With that said, DeJoy would have avoided a lot of bad press by divesting himself totally.

[ProfessorGAC]

36. His XPO Holdings Are Tricky

When XPO bought his pissant company, he held around $24 million stock.
The XPO deal was cash (including assumption of existing debt). It wasn't a stock swap.
However, there's an odd tax loophole that allows a cash recipient to "buy" anything under 50% of the cash payment in the new company's stock. Doing that avoids capital gains, especially on the most recently obtained shares.
So, he "bought" $12 million in XPO stock, but it's entrusted.
Because he's nobody at XPO, (he never actually worked for them & the company made it clear they have no use for him) it may not rise to the level of a true ethics violation.
Since he doesn't have direct control over the shares without penalty (for a lengthy term) divesting it's possible divestiture was not necessary.
I guess we'll see, but in my opinion, this isn't going to be a reason to launch him.
That said, I'd think the incompetence he's already shown would be enough reason.

[questionseverything]

37. It's not incompetence, it's sabotage

[soldierant]

40. USPS has had to do a lot of things which were not best practices

since the Postal Reorganization Act of I believe it was 2006.

Being requred to fund pensions 75 years into the future cramped its style and forced it to cut a lot of corners and forfeit a lot of dignity and good will. Certainly that Act needs to go. But NoJoy needs to go first.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. That's from August 18th.

[Hekate]

12. Biiig smile here

[FakeNoose]

14. Thank you U.S. District Judge John D. Bates

Now let's get DeJoy out of office, once and for all! DeJoy has to go.

[Blue Owl]

18. Cram that fuckstick DeJoystick where the sun don't shine

[bucolic_frolic]

22. $286 million!!!

And the peasants are happier now with $13-15 an hour!

[former9thward]

24. The story is three weeks old.

[blogslug]

25. Here is the Order

https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CREW-v-USPS-Order-2021.08.17.pdf

So, both parties have until September 17 to update the court on the status of the turnover?

[calimary]

41. I want to see an order sending him TO JAIL!!!

[spanone]

31. K&R

[JT45242]

32. isn't this like the 3rd judge to order the same thing ... I'll believe it when he turns the stuff ov

DeJoy will just appeal and not turn anything over. Delay and lie just like he has for his entire term as postmaster.

Unless the judge specifically listed penalties for noncompliance -- he will drag his feet and appeal to a higher court.

[Jetheels]

33. "Judge orders".....

Does this even mean anything to republicans?

[lagomorph777]

34. Good. Toss DeJoy in DeJail.

These documents probably support that case, which is why he's resisting.

[Tommymac]

35. K & R for Transparency

DeJoy is a man without ethics or morals and is a criminal.

That is all.

[NotHardly]

38. About Damn TIME

[Cha]

39. Kr! TY