GEO Group Gave Trump PAC $1.4 Million After Winning $165 Million-a-Year ICE Contracts
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 21
GEO Group Gave Trump PAC $1.4 Million After Winning $165 Million-a-Year ICE Contracts
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 21
Summary
$1.413 million in GEO Group donations to Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc. came in July, shortly after the company secured two five-year ICE detention contracts worth a combined $165 million annually.
$1 million was donated on July 16, three days after GEO announced an $85 million-a-year deal to run a 1,188-bed detention center in Hudson, Colorado.
$413,000 followed on July 31, two days after GEO disclosed an $80 million-a-year contract for a 1,320-bed facility in Winton, North Carolina.
The donations were reported in MAGA Inc.'s campaign finance filing, while the White House said claims that political giving influenced contract awards were false.
The contracts expand detention capacity as Trump pursues what the White House called the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.