{"id":1836,"date":"2026-06-20T07:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:10:21","slug":"felon-trump-pal-behind-green-slime-fiasco-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1836","title":{"rendered":"Felon Trump Pal Behind Green Slime Fiasco Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>The man whose subsidiary company was awarded a no-bid contract to remodel the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been unmasked as a two-time felon and deep-pocketed MAGA donor.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1834\">Trump, 80, Had to Google Man He Forgot Was on \u2018Enemies List\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A company owned by John J. Cafaro, whom President Donald Trump has called a \u201cfantastic man\u201d despite a pair of politics-related felonies, installed a water-purification system to prevent algae bloom in the pool\u2014an installation that so far appears to be failing miserably.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Hugh Dougherty and Chief Content Officer Joanna Coles broke down all the questions surrounding Cafaro and his relationship to Trump on <i>The Daily Beast Podcast<\/i>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow could he possibly get into this?\u201d Dougherty asked. \u201cWe don\u2019t really know, because it is a no-bid contract that is shrouded in secrecy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dougherty, who notes that some are comparing a photo of a cigar-smoking Cafaro to \u201cFat Tony\u201d from <i>The Simpsons<\/i>, rattled off what we <i>do<\/i> know about the businessman\u2019s relationship with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Cafaro is a longtime Trump donor with a mansion in Palm Beach, near the president\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate. He has been praised by Trump (he called him a \u201cfantastic man\u201d in 2016) despite spending time in jail for making an undisclosed $10,000 \u201cloan\u201d to his daughter, Capri Cafaro, during her unsuccessful run for Congress in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Cafaro spent five days in the hoosegow in 2010 over a judge\u2019s dissatisfaction with his financial disclosures. He was ultimately released and sentenced to probation and a $250,000 fine. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dougherty\u2019s comments follow revelations in The New York Times that Cafaro, who also once pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to bribe a congressman, has donated $350,000 to PACs supporting Trump since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Cafaro\u2019s company, Greenwater Services, was awarded a $1.7 million contract for the reflecting pool gig by the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service. <\/p>\n<p>The contract did not have to go through a typical government bidding process because the Trump administration deemed it a priority, allowing the president to have his \u201cAmerican flag blue\u201d reflecting pool installed in time for the America 250 celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1833\">Trump\u2019s Kennedy Center Embarrassment Takes Puzzling New Turn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, the White House claimed there was no favoritism in the administration\u2019s selection of a company that has ties to a longtime donor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis contract was awarded by the Department of [the] Interior; the White House did not play any role in the selection process,\u201d spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told the Daily Beast. \u201cThe failing New York Times\u2019 continued attempts to fabricate conflicts of interest are irresponsible and further reinforce the public\u2019s distrust in the news media, which is already at an all-time low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond questions about the nature of the contract are criticisms that Trump may have blown through $14 million in taxpayer dollars\u2014more than seven times the amount initially proposed\u2014to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, only for it to fill with green sludge two weeks before America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The pool holds about 6.5 million gallons of water, and has a surface area of more than 300,000 square feet. On Thursday, around half of the surface water remained green.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Park Service employees are resorting to pouring hydrogen peroxide into the pool in an attempt to kill off the algae. <\/p>\n<p>Coles asked Dougherty if there was any chance the pool would be glistening blue in time for the July 4 celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything\u2019s possible,\u201d he said, before noting that things still appear to be moving in the wrong direction, as The Washington Post reported that satellite imagery shows there is more algae in the pool this month than in any of the last five Junes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo can it be fixed? Maybe,\u201d Dougherty said. \u201cI\u2019m not sure that the individual gallon bottles of unbranded bleach are the way. And as you see, the clock is ticking to July 4&#8230; It doesn\u2019t look like it. [The algae] seems to be going up, not down.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i><b>New episodes of The Daily Beast Podcast are released every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday on <\/b><\/i><i><b>YouTube<\/b><\/i><i><b>, and on <\/b><\/i><i><b>other podcast platforms<\/b><\/i><i><b> the next morning. Follow our new feed on your favorite podcast platform at <\/b><\/i><i><b>beast.pub\/dailybeastpod<\/b><\/i><i><b> and subscribe on <\/b><\/i><i><b>YouTube<\/b><\/i><i><b> to watch full episodes.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1831\">Trump\u2019s Green Slime Nightmare Is Spawning Surprising Souvenirs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man whose subsidiary company was awarded a no-bid contract to remodel the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been unmasked as a two-time felon and deep-pocketed MAGA donor. 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