Postmaster General Louis DeJoy hired multiple members of the senior staff of his private company to take executive positions in the US Postal Service as early as his hiring in June, when mail delivery started to have performance issues, CNN reports.
DeJoy still owns at least a $30 million stake in his old company according to financial disclosure forms filed by his wife, the Trump Administration’s nominee to be the Ambassador to Canada.
DeJoy placed four executives from XPO Logistics as chief of staff, executive administrator and senior executive advisers at USPS, positions that directly oversee the operations of mail delivery. The annual salaries for these positions run from $180,000 to $195,000, and it’s unknown how much stock in their old companies they still retain.
“This is the story we’ve seen over and over in the Trump administration: One set of rules for the president and his closest allies, and another for everyone else. DeJoy’s cost-cutting initiatives that have caused delivery delays across the country don’t seem to apply to his own staff,” American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers said in a statement.