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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract

October 4, 2026 · 5:13 am ET · Leave a Comment

“In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup, documents show,” the New York Times reports.

“The Department of Homeland Security agreed to pay the donor’s firm $108 million for a Boeing 737 airliner that had been converted into a massive private jet, complete with a stand-up bar, two bedrooms, marble showers and a table covered in manta ray skin.”

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