The thieves stole nearly $460,000. Then the Treasury awarded them another five-year contract, despite IG audits revealing alleged fraud and mismanagement.
Courtney Mabeus
Courtney Mabeus has worked as a journalist for nearly 15 years. Her three-part series “No Turning Back” received a first place National Headliner Award as well as an award for excellence in feature writing from the Association of LGBTQ Journalists in 2019. She has most recently worked on staff for Navy Times and The Virginian-Pilot, and her work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others.
Camouflaged as Polling Workers, National Guard Presence During Primaries Fuels Worries of Militarized Presidential Election
“Our goal was to make sure that you couldn’t tell whether it was a Guardsman or a volunteer,” said a spokesperson, of the deployments to polling stations.

