Former Secretary for Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has been hit with yet another scandal involving the management of her department following explosive details of her husband’s predilection for Barbie-like women and cross-dressing.
Noem, who was removed from her Cabinet position in early March, is now facing accusations that she awarded Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts worth millions to five companies all owned by a single GOP donor, according to NOTUS.
This investigation comes after photos emerged of her husband, Bryon Noem, wearing pink spandex with balloons on his chest to look like breasts and flirting with women online.
The Daily Mail reported that Bryon Noem had a “bimbofication” fetish earlier this week, as he is reported to have been seeking a woman with a “Barbie Doll”-like appearance online. He also reportedly sent $25,000 to his online connections.
According to experts, the scandal with her husband is not just bad for her personal life, but could have opened DHS up to blackmail.
“It’s astounding that somebody whose spouse is at that level has that kind of bad judgment,” U.S. counterintelligence expert Jack Barsky told The Mail.
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Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos said, “If a media organization can find this out, you can assume with a high degree of confidence that a hostile intelligence service knows this as well.”
Polymeropoulos added that this is exactly the kind of intelligence that espionage services use to coerce people into doing their bidding.
There is no indication that this blackmail occurred at DHS. Noem was reportedly fired over her handling of the ICE protests in Minneapolis, which resulted in the deaths of two U.S. citizens, her taxpayer-funded photo shoots, and rumors of an affair with DHS staffer Cory Lewandowski. Both have denied being in a romantic relationship.
Despite being replaced at DHS, she is still serving the administration in a new position as “special envoy to The Shield of the Americas.”
Now, she is facing a probe from Representative Robert Garcia on the House Oversight Committee, who is looking into how five companies, all run by GOP donor and former State Department employee, William Walters, obtained lucrative contracts to aid with Noem’s mass deportation agenda.
This information was contained in a letter from Garcia to Walters, obtained by NOTUS, that focuses largely on his company, Salus Worldwide Solutions.
The letter asks how Walters’ firms, which had never worked on immigration contracts before, obtained several government contracts, including one worth nearly $1 billion.
One of the contracts was for the use of a private jet, which Noem’s DHS argued was necessary for border enforcement.
“Neither I nor any member of my company has, now or in the past, a relationship with Mr. Lewindowski [sic.]” Walters told The Independent in an email.
“No member of Salus has ever sought or accepted preferential treatment from a federal Department or Agency official in the award of a contract, nor solicited anything of value for anyone from anyone. There is no truth to any of this. We’re proud of our conduct and the services we provide and plan on telling Congress exactly what we do and how we do it. Let’s see if others are willing to do the same.”
Walters has a deadline of April 16 to deliver records of his work with the administration to the Oversight Committee.
