Biden transition official profited from $600 million spent on housing illegals?

 Washington Examiner:

A nonprofit watchdog group has sued the Biden administration for its failure to turn over documents that explain how massive government contracts to detain migrants at the border were awarded to a former Biden transition team member.

The Washington-based American Accountability Foundation on Wednesday filed two lawsuits against the departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security for not releasing documents about contracts each department gave to the nonprofit organization Endeavors last spring. The AAF submitted two Freedom of Information Act requests 11 months ago for all communications in an effort to determine if there was a "quid pro quo" between government officials and a former Biden official, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, following the Washington Examiner's investigation in March 2021.

“Aside from the efforts at DHS and HHS to cover up the crisis at our southern border with this housing contract, they also displayed the worst type of government cronyism,” AAF founder Tom Jones, a former Trump White House official, said in a statement. “Instead of ignoring our FOIA requests, DHS and HHS need to come clean to the American people about the clear conflict of interest with this contract, and prioritize sound policy over political favors for their friends."

The AAF submitted each FOIA request in late April 2021. HHS in October requested clarification on the request, and the AAF responded. In January, HHS disclosed that it had 5,700 pages of materials but has not released them. The DHS confirmed receiving the request in July. In that time, it has not shared any information.

In its rush to respond to the surge of migrant families who came across the southern border shortly after President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the administration signed two deals for more than $600 million with Endeavors, an organization that had never received a contract from HHS or the DHS before but was well connected to top government officials.

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This looks like the way Democrats get rich in government positions. 

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