‘Alarming’: Donors to Buttigieg’s campaigns ‘got $33 million in contracts’

An investigation by the Daily Mail, a publication in the United Kingdom, reveals that Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden’s transportation chief, took $250,000 in campaign donations from people and companies that later got $33 million in city contracts while he was mayor in South Bend, Indiana.

For example, the Troyer Group donated $9,000, then got contracts worth more than $1.7 million. Donations totaling $8,100 from Walsh & Kelly were followed by more than $7.6 million in city contracts. Selge Construction wrote checks for $4,250 and saw contracts worth more than $4 million arrive on its doorstep.

The investigation showed that Buttigieg’s political action committees got money from 23 companies “who then got jobs from South Bend’s Board of Public Works.” Sometimes those donations and contracts happened on the same day.

The investigation said the companies, or their executives and their spouses, turned over $253,750 to Buttigieg’s campaigns, and then got “at least $33,310,426” in city contracts between 2011 and 2019. – READ MORE