Sep 11, 2026 · 41 min · 17 segments
Welcome back to the show! In today's jam-packed episode, we dive deep into three explosive corruption stories tracking pay-to-play schemes, hidden bribery networks, and the taxpayers left footing the…
So an unpaid campaign operative with no confirmed office became the effective gatekeeper for billions of dollars in Homeland Security contracts.
after his patron rewrote the department rules so that nearly every decision crossed her desk.
It ended with the secretary told a Senate panel that the president had personally approved a $220 million ad campaign.
The president said he had never heard of it, and both of them were gone within a month.
So who was involved? Corey Lewandowski, 52, Trump's 2016 campaign manager, entered the DHS February 11th of 2025 as an unpaid special government employee.
a temporary advisory status that by statute cannot exceed 130 days in a 365-day period.
Now, of course, we got Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican senator from Oklahoma, sworn in as secretary at the end of March 2026.
Tricia McLaughlin runs the DHS Office of Public Affairs, the office that is funding the ad contracts.
Now, she is married to Ben Yoho, CEO of the strategy group, which received part of the money.
We have George Zoli, founder of CEO Group, the private prison operator that runs DHS detention facilities.
So an unpaid campaign operative with no confirmed office became the effective gatekeeper for billions of dollars in Homeland Security contracts.
after his patron rewrote the department rules so that nearly every decision crossed her desk.
It ended with the secretary told a Senate panel that the president had personally approved a $220 million ad campaign.
The president said he had never heard of it, and both of them were gone within a month.
So who was involved? Corey Lewandowski, 52, Trump's 2016 campaign manager, entered the DHS February 11th of 2025 as an unpaid special government employee.
a temporary advisory status that by statute cannot exceed 130 days in a 365-day period.
Now, of course, we got Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican senator from Oklahoma, sworn in as secretary at the end of March 2026.
Tricia McLaughlin runs the DHS Office of Public Affairs, the office that is funding the ad contracts.
Now, she is married to Ben Yoho, CEO of the strategy group, which received part of the money.
We have George Zoli, founder of CEO Group, the private prison operator that runs DHS detention facilities.
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