{"id":53482,"date":"2021-06-30T15:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=53482"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T15:50:47","slug":"evidence-mounting-that-trump-sec-of-ag-former-ga-gov-perdue-accepted-multi-million-dollar-bribe-via-land-deal-with-major-usa-ag-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=53482","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Mounting that Trump Sec. of Ag., Former GA Gov. Perdue, Accepted Multi-Million Dollar Bribe via Land Deal with Major USA Ag. Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2021\/sonny-perdue-adm-land-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;It was a curious time for Sonny Perdue to close a real estate deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, Perdue\u2019s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had anyone noticed, it would have prompted questions ahead of his confirmation, a period when most nominees lie low and avoid potential controversy. The former governor of Georgia did not disclose the deal \u2014 there was no legal requirement to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An examination of public records by The Washington Post has found that the agricultural company, Archer-Daniels-Midland (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADM<\/a>), sold the land at a small fractionof its estimated value just as it stood to benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perdue did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the real estate deal. Jackie Anderson, a spokeswoman forChicago-based ADM, denied that the company sold the property at a discount, saying that ADM began negotiations with Perdue\u2019s former company,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrowstar.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">AGrowStar<\/a>, in 2015 \u2014 well before Trump was elected \u2014 and could not find another buyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;It was a curious time for Sonny Perdue to close a real estate deal. In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, Perdue\u2019s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America. Had anyone noticed, it would have prompted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53483,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53482\/revisions\/53483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}