New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.
Federal records show CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee.
No, ICE didn’t spend that—WE spent that. It’s our tax money.
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Oh so this is why they spent so much energy calling Walz and Ellison fraudsters for… checks notes… identifying fraud and prosecuting it.
Totally not a bribe that’s not even trying to be hidden.
Fuck these openly corrupt PoS people. If you are still registered as a Republican, you are a disgrace and disgusting.
So the federal government is money laundering. Great.
Sounds like a near-perfect example of graft.
Everyone in government is there to further the goal of stealing as much taxpayer money as possible.
PRIVATE prison… Sold…
The USA is really a dark dystopian shithole. But the orange manchild “leading” it, sure is a perfectly fitting figurehead.
We’re like 5 years away from “escape from LA” with snake plissken…
…except the movie was cool, reality is not. I’m so sorry for you guys. At least those poor sobs that have open eyes in this modern world.
More like handmaids tale.
Well given how things are we are probably closer to escape to LA. Writing that made every bone in my body ache, my Bedroom blood rejects giving LA compliments.
I’ll bet these guys don’t even try to hide it when they discuss it.
“Yeah, hand me that cigar. So, what are the numbers? You buy our empty, run down prison for $500 million, and we have to pay what? 10%? $500K? Will that do it?”
“Well $500 million is going to get some unwanted attention. It doesn’t matter, it will still go through, but the Libz will whine about it. Make it $495 mill, and we’ll get in under the wire. Deal?”
“Deal!”
Not sure if it was a joke you were making that went over my head, but 500 thousand is 0.1% of 500 million.
Whoever downvoted you is as bad at math as OP
Who is behind the curtains at CoreCivic?
Who recently joined the board, I wonder.
What a bargain
It isn’t a “private public partnership” without completely fleecing the public in the exchange.
$420 million? Really? Even when they grift, they’re memeing. I bet Musk is involved.
Yes they are rubbing it in our faces and leaving us to sound like conspiracy theorists when we see it.
“Paid” is NOT the correct word here.
Well come on. Obviously it appreciated.
Gotta spend dat fat taxpayer budget -_-
That’s a really nice way to say organized crime
i love capitalism
