Attack On The USPS

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[GreyhoundFan]

"5 takeaways from the Postal Service hearing in the Senate"

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The head of the Postal Service testified on Friday before a Republican-led Senate panel about the controversial changes he made to mail operations, right as many Americans get ready to vote by mail in a few months. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Republican donor who took his post in June, will also testify Monday before a Democratic-led House committee.

Here are five takeaways from Friday’s hearing.

1. DeJoy says it’s ‘an outrageous claim’ that he’s trying to affect how people vote

DeJoy said early on that there have been no changes to how election mail gets handled. He twice said it’s “an outrageous claim” that the changes he’s made to regular mail are designed to have a negative impact on the election. He said he will make sure election mail can be treated like first-class mail without the corresponding stamps.

He also said he plans to vote by mail this November and has done so before.

DeJoy spent significant time defending the recent controversial changes he implemented at the Postal Service. He said everything from cost-cutting measures to a reorganization of leadership, to taking away hundreds of mailboxes and mail-sorting machines, is either routine or necessary to keep the organization financially afloat.

He said he didn’t know about the removal of mailboxes and sorting machines until there was public uproar. “When I found out about it … we looked at the excitement it was creating, so I decided to stop it,” he said.

DeJoy denied he has significantly curtailed overtime pay to postal workers, and he defended limiting extra trips by postal workers to retrieve mail as having no impact on delivery.

“So this isn’t some sort of devious plot on your part,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, which held the hearing.

About the Postal Service’s recent warning that 46 states and D.C. might not get their ballots mailed out to voters and back on time, DeJoy said that has been a problem for years and that the Postal Service was trying to warn state election officials that many deadlines for ballot applications aren’t feasible.

“There are times ballots are sent out the day before the election,” DeJoy said. “It’s almost impossible for . . . the ballot to get to the voter, and for the voter to vote and to get it back in time for the election. So this was a very, very well-thought-out effort to safeguard the election, not to get in the way.”

2. He’s considering ‘dramatic changes’ to the Postal Service after the election

He confirmed in broad terms new Washington Post reporting that he is considering big changes — much larger than previously known — to how the Postal Service operates after November. The Post reports these changes “could lead to slower mail delivery in parts of the country and higher prices for some mail services.”

“We are considering dramatic changes to improve services to the American people,” DeJoy said when pressed by Democrats on whether he is considering this.

DeJoy didn’t go into detail, but The Post reports changes, such as requiring ballots to use first-class postage, could affect future elections.

3. DeJoy said that mail delays are a separate issue — and that he won’t put back sorting machines

“There was a slowdown in the mail when the production did not meet the schedule,” he said, rather vaguely explaining recent delays in mail delivery that have resulted in thousands of ballots and ballot applications not being delivered during primary elections. He added that employee availability is a “significant issue” because of the pandemic.

Some Democrats and experts want him to put back the nearly 700 mail-sorting machines that have been removed since DeJoy took office. DeJoy said he wouldn’t, because they’re not needed. Mail volume is down, he said, and post offices need to make room for package-sorting equipment.

Democrats were not satisfied with his response about the mail delays. “Frankly, they coincided with the time you took office,” said Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-Del.), clearly frustrated. (And he seemed equally frustrated his video feed wasn’t immediately working when it was his turn, resulting in a hot-mic episode in which his stream of obscenities was broadcast live.)

As Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) questioned DeJoy, he acknowledged he didn’t do any studies on how the changes could affect seniors and veterans, who rely on the Postal Service for medication and checks.

4. This comes down to mistrust about the president’s intentions

There’s a clear before and after in election experts’ concerns about how smoothly mail voting will go. Facing an election that polls show he could lose, President Trump has for months been making false claims degrading voting by mail. But experts’ alarm bells have gone off now that Trump has said he would reject congressional funding to help the Postal Service because he doesn’t want to expand mail voting. (The White House has since backtracked on funding and said it is “certainly open” to the $25 billion Democrats have proposed.)

So while DeJoy can try to assure Congress and Americans that the Postal Service isn’t trying to sabotage the election, many won’t be convinced. He also said he hasn’t talked with the president or the Trump campaign about these changes (though he did have broad discussions with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin). What DeJoy says will do little to assuage concerns about the president exerting influence on this for his own political benefit.

“We’ve got a president who doesn’t want to have a vote by mail,” Carper said. “We’ve got a president who likes to suppress the vote. We’ve got a president who would like to see the Postal Service also not do well. … And when I see what’s going on with the president who wants to degrade the Postal Service, wants to get rid of vote-by-mail, it shouldn’t be surprising that we’re alarmed when we see the kind of degraded service that we’re seeing across the country.”

5. More election-related funding remains an open question

DeJoy said something Friday that would seem to shock Democrats — that he doesn’t need any extra funding to deal with the election.

“I don’t need anything to deliver mail on the election night,” he said when asked whether he needs money from Congress to do it.

Democrats want to give the Postal Service $25 billion in part to help out with handling election mail. They point out that it’s aid the Postal Service Board of Governors said it needed. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) seemed at ease recently about the state of the Postal Service without any additional funding from Congress. He noted that the administration has loaned the Postal Service $10 billion from a previous coronavirus bill and said, “The Postal Service is going to be just fine.”

With DeJoy’s comments that he doesn’t need election-related funding, it could get harder for Democrats to persuade Republicans to fund the Postal Service in any coming coronavirus relief package.

 

[Smash!]

This is Putins tactic: Do something in broad daylight and lie when asked about it [emoji35]

[fraurosena]

15 hours ago, Smash! said:

This is Putins tactic: Do something in broad daylight and lie when asked about it

The sad thing? 

It's working.

[GreyhoundFan]

Yet so many farmers keep supporting Twitler and other repugs...

 

[fraurosena]

More ludicrous lies to stop you from voting by mail. Except when it’s absentee ballots— then it’s somehow ok.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

Yes!

 

[CTRLZero]

I love this resistance, especially so close to home in the Seattle-Tacoma area.  I hope this gets sorted out (pun!) soon.  Our mail delivery has definitely been slow since the dismantling began.  We worry because that’s how my mother-in-law’s medications are delivered. 

[GreyhoundFan]

Today's hearing is a shitshow. The Repugs are kissing DeJoy's ass and he's been dismissive of Dems. Here's a few early takeaways

Spoiler

For the second time in as many business days, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is facing critical questions from Congress about his handling of the Postal Service right before an election largely expected to be conducted by mail.

On Friday, DeJoy spoke to a Republican-controlled Senate committee. On Monday, he testified to a much less friendly Democratic-controlled House committee. Here are four takeaways from his testimony so far.

1. Democrats are putting DeJoy on the hot spot about whether he knew his service changes would lead to mail delays

In his Senate testimony Friday and again Monday before the House, DeJoy pitched the widespread delays across the nation in recent weeks as unfortunate dips in service, caused mostly by a shortage of postal workers due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But House Democrats obtained an internal Postal Service memo written to DeJoy earlier this month that warned his suspension of overtime and extra mail trips would cause such delays. (DeJoy has since stopped removal of mailboxes and sorting machines — though he won’t put back the hundreds taken away since he started in June).

“Mr. DeJoy, you’re withholding information from us,” said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), chairwoman of the committee holding this hearing, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, “concealing documents and downplaying the damage that you’re causing.”

DeJoy didn’t really have a specific answer to why he didn’t share this memo with Congress or whether he had concerns about mail delays through his changes, although under pressure from Democrats he used stronger language than before to describe mail delays. “We are very concerned with the deterioration and service and are working very diligently [to fix it],” he said.

But overall, DeJoy gave Democrats an opening to make their central case, which is that his actions are politically motivated.

“In the Postal Service’s 240 years of delivering the mail, how can one person screw this up so fast?" a visibly frustrated Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) asked, adding “What the heck are you doing?”

“For anyone thinking of voting absentee, the effect of your changes is to move Election Day from Nov. 3 up to something like Oct. 27,” Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said. (He’s not wrong, based on best-practices recommendations from both election experts and the Postal Service itself to mail your finished ballot at least a week before the election.)

2. DeJoy’s political leanings are very much under scrutiny by Democrats

DeJoy is a wealthy former logistics manager who was a major Republican donor and President Trump ally before being picked for the job by a Republican-controlled board overseeing the Postal Service.

DeJoy said Friday and again Monday it’s “outrageous” to accuse him of running the Postal Service to help Trump win in November. But a number of House Democrats accused him of just that.

Here’s Maloney in her opening statement:

Perhaps Mr. DeJoy thought his sweeping changes would not cause any delays. In my opinion, that would be incompetence at best. Or perhaps this was intentional. Maybe Mr. DeJoy was warned that his changes would cause delays, but he disregarded those warnings. That would be extremely reckless in the middle of a global pandemic with less than three months before an important election. Or perhaps there is a far simpler explanation. Perhaps Mr. De Joy is just doing exactly what President Trump said he wanted out on national television, using the blocking of funds to justify sweeping changes to hobble mail in voting. All of these options are bad.

Under questioning from Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), DeJoy acknowledged for the first time — albeit as obliquely as possible — the elephant in the room, which is that Trump’s continued undermining of mail voting is also undermining his job. “I have put word around to different people to lead that this is not helpful,” DeJoy said.

In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of the day, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) straight up asked DeJoy whether he illegally tried to help Trump when he was in the private sector and was helping raise money for the Trump campaign: “Did you pay back several of your top executives for contributing to the Trump campaign by bonusing or rewarding them?”

DeJoy denied everything Democrats leveled at him, including this. (“That’s an outrageous claim, sir, and I resent it,” he said to Cooper, adding “The answer is no.”)

But the effect of two congressional hearings DeJoy has participated in is that these Democratic attacks are ramping up, not down, after he came to testify and assuage concerns.

3. Overtime cuts could be coming for the Postal Service

One thing that’s not clear is whether DeJoy stopped Postal Service workers from working overtime recently (before backing off those changes after a public uproar about mail delays and concerns about how that would effect the election).

DeJoy says he “did not direct the elimination or any cutback in overtime.” But The Post has obtained internal documents that says he did. And House Democrats obtained their own documents that blame these changes for delayed mail.

Whether DeJoy has cut overtime yet or not, it could be coming. We also know, through Washington Post reporting, that he is considering big changes — much larger than previously known — to how the Postal Service operates after November.

DeJoy essentially confirmed that in the Senate’s hearing Friday by describing them only as “dramatic changes.” On Monday, he left open the possibility that overtime cuts could be coming soon.

4. It’s not clear what, if anything, Congress will do to help the Postal Service

On Saturday, the House of Representatives convened for an emergency vote, where Democrats and two dozen Republicans approved a $25 billion infusion of cash for the Postal Service. (Which Democrats will point out that the agency’s board of governors said was necessary.)

That same bill also prevented the Postal Service from making any changes to how the Postal Service operates.

But it’s almost certainly not going anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate. In both hearings Friday and Monday, Republican lawmakers jumped to DeJoy’s defense as a leader doing the best he can to make a fiscally struggling agency financially viable. “A transition where you’re trying to make changes, it always goes smoothly, doesn’t it?" Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked sarcastically.

DeJoy repeatedly said that his wish list would include legislation from Congress helping alleviate some of the Postal Service’s heaviest financial burdens, like health care and pensions.

“Get me a billion and I’ll put the machines in,” DeJoy said, under questioning from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) about why he won’t put nearly 700 mail-sorting machines back if only to restore Americans’ confidence in their ballots getting delivered on time.

But the politics of this Congress mean that wish for more funding isn’t being granted anytime soon.

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[fraurosena]

Maybe this belongs in the political ads thread, but as it's about DeJoy, I thought it could just as well go here:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

She did a great job:

 

As did AOC:

 

[GreyhoundFan]

This is so nasty. Lots of people who live there are likely older and/or without a vehicle to get to the post office. Meanwhile, Twitler and his buddies have their mail delivered on a silver or golden platter.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The Repugs poison everything.

 

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[47of74]

Figures

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After being hit with a lawsuit in federal court, and after months of being pressed  by Democratic lawmakers, the U.S. Postal Service finally released Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s calendar on Tuesday.

But good luck reading it.

Democrats and transparency advocates hoped to learn whom DeJoy, a former fundraiser for President Donald Trump, met with as he took control of the Postal Service ― particularly since he initiated a set of sweeping policy changes that measurably slowed mail delivery ahead of an election where millions planned to vote by mail. He also has a number of potential conflicts of interest from his time in the private sector, where he ran businesses that compete with the USPS.

But the calendar released Tuesday is almost entirely redacted. From June 15 to Nov. 7, DeJoy held more than 450 meetings and conference calls, his electronic calendar says. But the agency’s Freedom of Information Act office blacked out nearly every word beyond references to dates and times. Only a handful of recurring words escaped redaction: “meeting,” “teleconference,” “prep for all hands,” “in office” and “RTP” (an abbreviation for “Read, Think, Plan”).

DeJoy is one stick of fornicate who seriously needs to have a new calendar that starts every day with items like waking up, standing up in his cell for daily counts, reporting to the mess hall at breakfast, reporting to the prison laundry for work assignments, etc...

[Howl]

Biden is moving in the direction of replacing three people on the Board of Governors for the USPS.   They can then vote to replace De Joy.  Hope it works. 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Democrats introduce ‘DeJoy Act’ in opening salvo against USPS leader’s mail-slowing plan"

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Democrats are swarming to block a key piece of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year restructuring plan for the U.S. Postal Service, casting doubt on the feasibility of his proposals for achieving financial stability for the agency.

A group of House Democrats on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit the Postal Service from lengthening mail-delivery windows and require it to adhere to present service expectations. They named the bill the Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act, or DEJOY Act.

One House aide involved in postal reform legislation introduced in February said some members of the caucus are leery of proceeding with efforts to address the Postal Service’s financial obligations given that DeJoy’s 10-year plan includes sharp reductions in service, including slower timetables for mail delivery and reduced post office hours.

Separately, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) threatened to take legal action to block the service cuts. His office said in a statement Friday that it was encouraged that DeJoy recognizes the legal obligations to secure limited regulatory approvals, but said it remained concerned about timely mail delivery.

Mounting concern among Democrats, who can afford few defections from their narrow House majority if they hope to pass postal reform, could throw off the postmaster general’s entire “Delivering for America” proposal.

DeJoy hopes to save the Postal Service $160 billion over the next decade through a combination of austerity measures, postage price increases and projected package volume growth. But the largest single piece of his plan is dependent on Congress repealing its pre-funding mandate for retiree health care costs, which runs about $5 billion a year. Instead, the agency wants to wind down those payments and enroll future retirees in Medicare, a proposal worth $44 billion.

A bill introduced by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, chair of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee, includes both components.

But DeJoy’s designs to slow the mail — even as the Postal Service attempts to rebound from generationally poor service metrics in recent months — and perceived animus toward lawmakers in recent hearings have made those prospects more difficult.

Under current “service standards,” or the amount of time the Postal Service allots itself to deliver a piece of mail, it should take no more than three days for a first-class mail item to arrive, regardless of where it is being sent in the United States. Under DeJoy’s new plan, the three-day standard would still apply to 70 percent of first-class mail items. But for the remaining 30 percent — which is roughly 5 billion pieces of mail — the benchmark will go from three to as many as five days based on destination mileage.

“This particular change, going from 100 percent of first-class mail being delivered one to three days to only 70 percent, would be a nonstarter, in my opinion, with the American people,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), who introduced the DEJOY Act with six Democratic co-sponsors, told The Washington Post.

  

DeJoy’s plan presents service cuts as a necessity given falling mail volume, inconsistency in the Postal Service’s largely private-sector “middle mile” transportation network and spiraling transportation costs required to ferry fewer pieces of mail cross-country.

Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer said in an emailed statement that the agency would “strongly oppose a freeze on the current unachieved and unachievable service standards,” and said that though the agency had tried to meet delivery expectations in recent years, it largely has fallen short.

“The modifications we are proposing will enable us to improve reliability by shifting volume from unreliable air transportation to more reliable ground transportation,” Partenheimer said, “and facilitate network improvements that will ensure that we can meet or exceed 95 percent on-time delivery across all of our mail and shipping product classes during all times of the year.”

In an interview Tuesday, DeJoy told The Post that the Postal Service did not view the cuts as a fundamental disruption in service, and that the agency has already submitted plans to the Postal Regulatory Commission to change service standards.

“We do not believe that any of these changes that we are proposing or moving forward on are hugely impacting or changing the structure and the service of the Postal Service,” DeJoy said.

The Postal Service’s chief financial officer, Joseph Corbett, cautioned during a Tuesday webinar announcing the plan that failure to swiftly adopt any of its tenets would come with significant ramifications.

“If we encounter roadblocks with any of the major elements, we quickly get into negative territory and may face annual losses for the coming decade,” Corbett said. “The scale of consequences from being constrained or slowed in our implementation of initiatives would be sizable.”

But mail industry experts worry that degrading service standards could chase away businesses that can no longer afford or tolerate slower, more expensive delivery. DeJoy’s plan also calls for price increases, but he declined to disclose them in the webinar or in the interview. Several mailing firms and advocacy organizations are suing the agency’s regulator to block it from allowing the Postal Service to raise prices.

Industry officials are also critical of the plan’s pivot toward the Postal Service’s package business and away from paper mail. DeJoy in the interview with The Post said he was “not a magician” and “I can’t create the need for mail.”

“In the entire fifty-eight pages of the plan there does not appear to be any effort to retain mail volume,” PostCom, a national postal commerce advocacy group, wrote in its Thursday industry bulletin. “Apart from price increases and service reductions, there is little about mail in the plan at all. That’s inaction.”

“This part of the plan will drive mail volume down to levels not seen since before it reached 100 billion in 1980,” the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers wrote in its newsletter. “If we mailers win our federal lawsuit, the plan is sunk.”

Lawmakers are beginning to share that concern as they are bombarded with calls from local constituents worried about if their medications, paychecks and bills will arrive late. Already over the summer when DeJoy implemented a smaller round of service cuts, major mail-order pharmacies told Senate investigators that some patients experienced “significant” delays in receiving mailed prescriptions. In recent months, untold numbers of consumers have complained of late fees assessed on bills that were held up in the mail.

“This is the best way to kill your business,” Krishnamoorthi said, “which is to basically say to your customers, ‘We’re not going to meet your expectations. You’re going to meet our service realities, regardless of what ends up happening.’”

 

[GreyhoundFan]

About damned time: "FBI investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with his political fundraising"

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The FBI is investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy in connection with campaign fundraising activity involving his former business, according to people familiar with the matter and a spokesman for DeJoy.

FBI agents in recent weeks interviewed current and former employees of DeJoy and the business, asking questions about political contributions and company activities, these people said. Prosecutors also issued a subpoena to DeJoy himself for information, one of the people said.

That person, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing and politically sensitive investigation.

Mark Corallo, a DeJoy spokesman, confirmed the investigation in a statement but insisted DeJoy had not knowingly violated any laws.

“Mr. DeJoy has learned that the Department of Justice is investigating campaign contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector,” Corallo said. “He has always been scrupulous in his adherence to the campaign contribution laws and has never knowingly violated them.”

The inquiries could signal impending legal peril for the controversial head of the nation’s mail service — though DeJoy has not been charged with any crimes and has previously asserted that he and his company followed the law in their campaign fundraising activity.

Spokesmen for the FBI and Justice Department declined to comment. A spokesman for the Postal Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

DeJoy — who was appointed to run the Postal Service by its board of governors last May — has been dogged by controversy for almost his entire time in office. Soon after starting in the job, he imposed cost-cutting moves that led to a reduction in overtime and limits on mail trips that mail carriers blamed for creating backlogs across the country.

Democrats accused the prominent GOP fundraiser, who personally gave more than $1.1 million to the joint fundraising vehicle of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican Party, of trying to undermine his own organization because of Trump’s distrust of mail-in voting. Two Democratic lawmakers, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to the FBI asking agents to investigate whether DeJoy or the Postal Service’s governing board “committed any crimes” in stalling mail.

In a congressional hearing last year, DeJoy disputed he was trying to affect the vote.

“I am not engaged in sabotaging the election,” DeJoy said at the time. “We will do everything in our power and structure to deliver the ballots on time.”

In early September, The Washington Post published an extensive examination of how employees at DeJoy’s former company, North Carolina-based New Breed Logistics, alleged they were pressured by DeJoy or his aides to attend political fundraisers or make contributions to Republican candidates, and then were paid back through bonuses.

Such reimbursements could run afoul of state or federal laws, which prohibit “straw-donor” schemes meant to allow wealthy donors to evade individual contribution limits and obscure the source of a candidate’s money. In April, though, Wake County, N.C., District Attorney Lorrin Freeman (D) said that she would not pursue an investigation of DeJoy and that the matter was better left to federal authorities.

DeJoy has adamantly disputed that he broke the law. Asked at a hearing in August by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) if he had repaid executives for making donations to the Trump campaign, DeJoy responded: “That’s an outrageous claim, sir, and I resent it. . . . The answer is no.”

When The Post later published its report, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) said the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which she chairs, would begin an inquiry and asserted DeJoy may have lied to the panel under oath.

Corallo noted in his statement about the FBI investigation that DeJoy “fully cooperated with and answered the questions posed by Congress regarding these matters.”

“The same is true of the Postal Service Inspector General’s inquiry which after a thorough investigation gave Mr. DeJoy a clean bill of health on his disclosure and divestment issues,” Corallo said. “He expects nothing less in this latest matter and he intends to work with DOJ toward swiftly resolving it.”

Five people who worked for New Breed Logistics told The Post last year that they were urged by DeJoy’s aides or by DeJoy himself to write checks and attend fundraisers at his mansion. Two employees said DeJoy would then instruct that bonus payments be boosted to help defray the cost of their contributions.

A Post analysis of federal and state campaign finance records found a pattern of extensive donations by New Breed employees to Republican candidates, with the same amount often given by multiple people on the same day. Between 2000 and 2014, 124 individuals who worked for the company together gave more than $1 million to federal and state GOP candidates. Many had not previously made political donations, according to The Post’s analysis.

“He would ask employees to make contributions at the same time that he would say, ‘I’ll get it back to you down the road,’ ” one former employee, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Post last year.

At the time of The Post’s report Monty Hagler, a DeJoy spokesman, said DeJoy was not aware that any employees had felt pressured to make donations and “believes that he has always followed campaign fundraising laws and regulations.” Hagler said DeJoy “sought and received legal advice” from a former general counsel for the Federal Election Commission “to ensure that he, New Breed Logistics and any person affiliated with New Breed fully complied with any and all laws.”

The federal law banning straw-donor schemes has a five-year statute of limitations, which could complicate a possible criminal case. The former employees who spoke to The Post last year described donations they gave between 2003 and 2014, the year when New Breed was acquired by a Connecticut-based company called XPO Logistics.

DeJoy remained at XPO briefly in an executive role and retired at the end of 2015 — though he was then appointed to the company’s board of directors, where he served until 2018.

In the wake of The Post’s report, the Campaign Legal Center, an advocacy organization, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that suspicious donation activity continued after New Breed’s acquisition. A Federal Election Commission spokesman confirmed the commission had received the complaint but declined to comment further.

Between 2015 and 2018, the group alleged, campaign finance records showed “several instances of XPO employees contributing to the same candidate or committee, during the same period of time, and often in similar amounts,” and that “DeJoy family members, including DeJoy’s college-aged children, also made contributions on the same day or in the same period as those employees.”

“Between 2015 and 2018, XPO Logistics employees and DeJoy family members following this pattern together gave over $150,000 to the same candidates and committees, including over $50,000 to Trump Victory, President Donald Trump’s joint fundraising committee,” the group alleged.

A spokesman for XPO Logistics did not immediately respond to a request for comment.