Kennedy Center rushed shoddy renovations for Trump: whistleblowers

The Kennedy Center’s leadership worked closely with Donald Trump’s administration to rush out no-bid contracts for construction projects at the performing arts venue in service of the president’s personal tastes, according to a Democratic senator investigating the efforts.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says he is expanding a probe into the Trump-led renovations after several whistleblower reports raised “serious questions” about the center’s leadership and the board’s financial management.

The whistleblower complaints allege corner-cutting projects that have already rusted over, a new bathroom floor that was ripped out because the president didn’t like the color, multi-million dollar no-bid contracts, and management that defied contracting rules while telling officials “we’ll deal with the lawsuits later.”

“Taken together, these are not isolated lapses but a single pattern that runs counter to everything the center has told Congress it would do with the public’s money,” Whitehouse wrote in a letter to Kennedy Center executive director Matt Floca on Saturday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kennedy-center-rushed-shoddy-renovations-for-trump-whistleblowers/ar-AA27UFKO

Let me guess, it was a no bid contract.