The Department of Justice (DOJ) is launching an investigation into a migrant facility scam that is linked to an official in former President Joe Biden’s administration.
The Biden-era scam involved an empty migrant facility in Pecos, Texas, that has been costing taxpayers a staggering $18 million per month.
An investigation was launched by President Donald Trump’s DOJ after it emerged that the shady government deal is linked to a former Biden transition team member who conveniently brokered the contract, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
The revelation was exposed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiacy (DOGE).
DOGE discovered that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had been funneling millions into a facility that housed zero migrants since March 2024, despite the huge cost to taxpayers.
A former ICE employee and Biden transition team member joined Family Endeavors in early 2021 and helped secure a sole-source HHS contract for overflow housing from licensed care facilities.
As a result, Family Endeavors’ cash and portfolio of investments grew from $8.3M in 2020… pic.twitter.com/KacroxqRcl
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 26, 2025
The DOJ is now investigating the shady HHS deal that poured millions into an empty migrant facility.
Even more damning, the deal was orchestrated by former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee-turned-Biden insider Andrew Lorenzen-Strait.
Unfortunately for Lorenzen-Strait, DOGE and the DOJ have the receipts.
Thanks to this backdoor deal, Lorenzen-Strait’s Family Endeavors, the organization at the center of the scandal, saw its financial standing explode.
In 2020, the group held just $8.3 million in assets.
By 2023, after securing its no-bid contract, that number ballooned to a staggering $520.4 million.
And while American taxpayers footed the bill, the facility remained vacant.
Thankfully, with national licensed migrant facility occupancy plummeting below 20%, the HHS was forced to cut the contract.
Cutting this contact saves Americans more than $215 million annually.
However, the damage had already been done.
As reported by Project Veritas and America First Legal, Lorenzen-Strait played a key role in engineering this taxpayer-funded racket.
Undercover footage captured him openly discussing how he helped Family Endeavors land lucrative, no-bid immigration contracts with HHS.
/2 In 2020, Family Endeavors hired Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former member of the Biden transition team. https://t.co/TlKM45X8d6
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
Not long after hiring Lorenzen-Strait, Family Endeavors struck gold, securing a staggering $530 million contract from HHS.
And that wasn’t all, as Biden’s DHS and ICE followed suit, dishing out another $87 million in contracts.
/4 At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded Endeavors a contract of $87 million.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
/5 Since Endeavors had no noticeable government contracts before the arrival of a politically connected Biden-admin staffer, AFL opened an investigation to provide the American people with answers into the seemingly corrupt transfer of $600+ million dollars to political allies.
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2023
Not bad for an organization that, before its Biden-connected hire, had exactly zero government contracts.
The Pecos migrant facility was no stranger to controversy.
It had been shut down previously due to reports of deplorable living conditions.
Housing primarily teenagers and unaccompanied minors, the facility was thrust back into the spotlight in late 2023 when CBS revealed the Biden administration had quietly reopened it due to an influx of illegal border crossings.
HHS insiders, speaking anonymously, admitted the facility was reactivated after traditional shelters ran out of space.
Meanwhile, corporate media outlets were content to downplay the scandal, choosing instead to shield the Biden administration from scrutiny.
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