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TexasTowelie

(117,469 posts)
Sun May 2, 2021, 02:19 AM May 2021

Trucking firm's loan of $700M from U.S. 'a mistake,' Hill says

WASHINGTON -- A Kansas trucking company received a $700 million federal loan after what appear to be "missteps" by the Treasury Department and the Department of Defense, the Congressional Oversight Commission said in a report released Friday.

Commissioners want to know who determined that the money-losing company, known at the time as YRC Worldwide, was "critical to national security" and thus qualified for the national security loan program, which was authorized last year near the start of the covid-19 pandemic.

The company got the loan after spending $570,000 on lobbying last year, the report notes. The previous year, it had spent nothing, the report stated.

"The Commission makes note of the correlation between lobbying the government and Yellow's ability to secure a $700 million loan," the report stated.

Read more: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/may/01/trucking-firms-loan-of-700m-from-us-a-mistake/?news-politics

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Trucking firm's loan of $700M from U.S. 'a mistake,' Hill says (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2021 OP
Big Bucks For Yellow Trucks wyn borkins May 2021 #1
Let's follow the kickback money that landed in former guy's pockets... abqtommy May 2021 #2
Smells of Trump/Kushner/Mnuchin kickbacks. Bristlecone May 2021 #3
Definitely...and Sec. of Defense Mark Esper.. Duppers May 2021 #4

wyn borkins

(1,120 posts)
1. Big Bucks For Yellow Trucks
Sun May 2, 2021, 05:09 AM
May 2021

$570,000 begets $700 million
Not a bad deal for Yellow trucks
To service specifically US DoD sites

Now here's the rub(ber)...seems that Steven Mnuchin said, there are plenty of people, very senior people, on both sides, that encouraged me to make the loan!

Duppers

(28,260 posts)
4. Definitely...and Sec. of Defense Mark Esper..
Sun May 2, 2021, 05:19 PM
May 2021
The Treasury Department has said it approved the loan "based on a certification by the Secretary of Defense that YRC is critical to maintaining national security."


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