Recommendations of the Editorial team
Just like US President Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Minister of Internal Security, is also very familiar with the advantages of a public office. Be it to make money quickly or beautify your lifestyle. In 2021, public records showed that the then governor of South Dakota spent almost $ 70,000 for installing a sauna, chandelier and luxurious decorations in the governor residence. Last year she was sued by a consumer protection organization because she had not made open advertising for a Texan dentist group. Recently, when a Salvadorian torture prison was visited, she had a watch worth $ 50,000. In addition, a Gucci handbag with over $ 3,000 was stolen in cash in a restaurant in Washington, DC at the beginning of this year.
Noem silent income from dark sources
Kristi Noem’s salary as a governor was $ 130,000. But this was not her only source of income during her term in South Dakota. According to a ProPublica report on Monday, she received tens of thousands of dollars from a Dark Money group. Possibly in violation of the election campaign financing.
Tax documents that are available show that in 2023, while Noem’s term as governor of South Dakota, an organization called “American Resolve Policy Fund” NoEM paid $ 80,000. A sum that never appeared in her public ethics explanations.
Payment ran through newly founded company in Delaware
The payment went to a LLC registered in Delaware under Noem’s name. According to the documents viewed by Prublica, the transfer of $ 80,000 by “American Resolve” was only four minutes after the company was officially registered. Officially, Kristi Noem received the money for her support in fundraising the group. That your donors do not open. The organization then switched on social media attack campaigns against local media, which reported alleged abuse of public funds.
It is not uncommon for politicians to help non -profit organizations to collect donations. However, a five -digit sum is rarely transferred directly to a private company account. “A governor must not have a private secondary activity that the public knows nothing about,” Lee Schoenbeck, long -time Republican lawyer and MP, told Prublica. “That would be clearly inappropriate.”
Pattern of abuse of power
The revelations fit into a larger pattern in dealing with Kristi NoEM-and the Trump government as a whole-with public funds. The Associated Press news agency found that it caused over $ 150,000 of personal and national campaign travel costs. Which were ultimately taken over by the state. Among other things, during her support for Trump’s 2024 election campaign, with which she sharpened her national profile. The same report calculated that the governor’s office during Noem’s six -year term exposed a total of $ 640,000 for travel -related expenses. Among them, including $ 7,555 for flight tickets to Paris and hunting trips to Canada.
Kristi Noem has developed an outstanding position in a government. Which is increasingly proving to be one of the most corrupt in the history of the United States. The President’s family deserves vigorously through a large number of profit -driven machinations around the access to the White House. In return, rich receive practically direct access to the government. Like and immediately. Noem found its place in this system.