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Washington mdash; The House Oversight and Reform Committee is launching an investigation into embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy following a report alleging he pushed employees at the logistics company he led to make campaign contributions to Republican candidates and reimbursed them for the donations.Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York who chairs the Oversight panel, said in a statement DeJoy could face criminal exposure for the schem <a href=https://www.stanleycup.lt>stanley cup</a> e reported by The Washington Post, as well as for lying to her panel under oath, if the accusation are true. We will be investigating this issue, but I believe the Board of Governors must take emergency action to immediately suspend Mr. DeJoy, who they never should have selec <a href=https://www.cups-stanley.ca>stanley cup</a> ted in the first place, she said. According to the Post, employees of New Breed Logistics, the North Carolina-based company where DeJoy served as CEO, were urged by him or his aides to make campaign donations or attend fundraisers for GOP candidates at his h <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.fr>stanley cup</a> ome. DeJoy, the Post reported, would then reimburse his workers for the contributions through bonuses.During testimony before the Oversight Committee last month, Congressman Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, asked DeJoy whether he repaid his employees for donations they made to Republican politicians. DeJoy called the claim outrageous, and said no. I m fully aware of legal campaign contributions and I resent the assertion, sir, he told Coo Qcws Editorial: Nebraska Should Keep System That Permits Splitting Of Electoral Votes
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