DeJoy’s fortune was accumulated through his logistics company, whose labor practices included union-busting, a bevy of labor violations, a major sexual harassment settlement, and working several pregnant employees to the point that they miscarried.
Indeed, one of the items that should only further disqualify DeJoy from his position is his continued $30 million financial stake in that company, which has contracted with USPS to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars since 2013, including at least $14 million in the first three months of DeJoy’s tenure, which is about $10 million more than the same period in 2019 and about $9 million more than the same period in 2018. As the Washington Post reported, DeJoy and his wife in total own upward of $75.3 million “in assets in Postal Service competitors or contractors,” coming in part from “millions in a private-equity fund invested in logistics companies that could benefit from privatizing or disassembling the Postal Service.”
DeJoy was named as postmaster general in May. There were many unusual things about the appointment. For one, DeJoy is the first postmaster general in 20 years not to have worked for the Postal Service. Second, the main reason DeJoy got the job seems to be that he has been a longtime Republican megadonor—prior to taking the gig, he was due to be the national finance chairman for last month’s Republican National Convention. Third, DeJoy was not on the list of 212 candidates elevated by the consulting firm that was in charge of recruitment for the position.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/this-is-still-happening-louis-dejoy.html
