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Document it. Report it. Put it on the pile.
There must come a reckoning of some sort.
Hopefully sooner than later.
Seems about the normal level of Trump corruption to me. This is literally what judge Engoron convicted him on in New York - fraudulently inflating real estate values for leverage and deflating them for tax dodging.
According to Michael Wriston, an ex-military analyst and investigative journalist who tracked the enormous markups for several of these warehouse purchases for his website Project Salt Box back in March, “across more than a dozen warehouse acquisitions, ICE paid prices that exceeded both prior property valuations and recent market comparables at nearly every site.”
For one warehouse in Surprise, Arizona, previously valued at just under $12 million, ICE paid over $70 million. For another in Social Circle, Georgia, valued at about $30 million, the agency paid nearly $130 million.