Board of Governors

Thanks to one of the RCA's in my office for sharing these interesting facts with me:

Did a quick look and see that for the 9 Board of Governor positions 4 are Bush appointees (with well credentialed Republican pedigrees), 1 an Obama appointee and 4 seats are vacant.  (Filibusters…?)  The Board of Governors is who elects the PMG.  They appointed Donahoe in Oct 2010.

I haven’t looked to see what other Boards they each may also sit on but look at their bio’s.  http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/board-governors-bios.htm#p=1

 This jumped out at me – Louis J. Giuliano is a “senior advisor to the Carlyle Group”  “Mr. Louis J. Giuliano is an Operating Executive at The Carlyle Group. Mr. Giuliano focuses on buyouts in the aerospace, defense, automotive, transportation, and industrial sectors in United States. He advises the firm on investments in these sectors, helping improve portfolio company operations and mentoring portfolio company officials. He is a part of Corporate Private Equity segment within which he is focuses on Europe Buyout…”

(note LJ Giuliano with Carlyle, Thurgood Marshall Jr with Corrections Corporation of America – CCA is the world’s largest private prison corporation)

Thurgood Marshall JR’s  Board connections

 

Mickey D. Barnett (Chairman) is a member of the Federalist Society (same group that Scalia, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito belong to)

Ellen C. Williams has a private business “Capital Network” which does “government affairs and lobbying”.  I want to look further into that….

The lone Obama appointee, Dennis J. Toner was Biden’s Deputy Chief of Staff for 10 years and on Biden’s staff for 34 years.

The Nevada lawyer (Bilby?) sits on the Board of the Lucky Lady Corporation (it a casino company)  http://jonathanwarren.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/bilbray.pdf 

Ellen C Williams – chart of other board connections  http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/relationship.asp?personId=54911683

James H Bilbray shares board affiliations with  Safefreight Technology Ltd  (read the full company overview and when USPS goes to real time scanning, I’ll bet money this is the company that gets the contract.  It’s what Safefreight Tech does.)

           

“…The company’s products comprise SecurityGuard, a GPS tracking device that is vehicle mounted or cargo embedded, which allows to manage various transportation assets online; and Smartfleet, a Web-based fleet management software, which enables to manage vehicles and drivers…”