New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.
One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.
The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal.
Federal records show CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee.
I’ll bet these guys don’t even try to hide it when they discuss it.
“Yeah, hand me that cigar. So, what are the numbers? You buy our empty, run down prison for $500 million, and we have to pay what? 10%? $500K? Will that do it?”
“Well $500 million is going to get some unwanted attention. It doesn’t matter, it will still go through, but the Libz will whine about it. Make it $495 mill, and we’ll get in under the wire. Deal?”
“Deal!”
Not sure if it was a joke you were making that went over my head, but 500 thousand is 0.1% of 500 million.
Whoever downvoted you is as bad at math as OP