Corey Lewandowski, the top aide of outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, sought payments from companies seeking contracts with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report.
Lewandowski, who is also expected to leave DHS this month after Donald Trump fired Noem, had multiple tense meetings with George Zoley, the founder of the private prison company GEO Group, sources told NBC News.
GEO Group stood to benefit from Trump’s hardline deportation agenda, but saw its government contracts shrink after Zoley and Lewandowski disagreed about the latter receiving payments in exchange for growing GEO’s contracts, which already totaled over $1 billion per year.
To be fair they were saving it for the book they were going to release after the Trump administration was ousted.