The Trump Reich last month awarded a $1.2 billion contract to construct a migrant detainee internment camp in the west Texas desert not to an established private prison outfit or Halliburton or Blackwater or one of those other Tom Clancy video game villains but Acquisition Logistics LLC, which the AP reports is listed as being based out of a “modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77 year-old retired Navy flight officer” with no experience in corrections and whose previous largest contract was worth $16 million. Oh and it doesn’t even have a functioning website.

The AP only knows those outlines of the contract for the gulag – which they report has already began interning migrants – as the Pentagon has refused to make public any of the other details per normal practice. At least one of the contractors who would otherwise have been sent RFPs filed a complaint with the GAO over the process. Joshua Schnell, a lawyer who specializes in federal contracts but isn’t involved in the complaint by Texas-based Gemini Tech Services said the obvious about Acquisition Logistics – that they’re being used as a shell for other entities – and took it further by naming private prison outfits Geo Group Inc and CoreCivic Corp as the likely real contractors.

Pointing to the likely reason for the laundering, the AP writes that the bids were only open to small businesses at least 51 percent owned by someone from a disadvantaged racial or ethnic minority and that despite the Trump Regime’s efforts to purge “DEI,” the rules are the rules when it comes to pissing away taxpayer dollars on fascism. Acquisition Logistics “receives preferential status because it’s classified as a veteran and Hispanic-owned small disadvantaged business,” per the AP.