Follow the money
Influence channels
Company treasury money, employee-funded PAC money, lobbying expense and subsidiary receipts are separate legal and accounting objects. They are published side by side and never added together. No record on this page establishes that political activity caused a government decision.
Disclosed political channels
Each figure is reported by one filer, for one period, in one channel. Company-published figures are unaudited company disclosures, not transaction ledgers.
Company treasury money, employee-funded PAC money, 527 money, independent expenditures, lobbying expense and subsidiary receipts are separate accounting and legal objects with different filers, periods and reporting scopes. This page never adds one to another, and none of them is added to federal award money.
Corporate treasury (company funds)
The GEO Group · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$4,216,900
Contributions the company reports making from corporate funds. Not employee money, not a federal PAC ledger, not lobbying expense.
The GEO Group published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
The aggregate does not identify every recipient, refund, amendment or filing lineage, and does not establish that any contribution influenced or caused a government decision.
Connected PAC (employee-funded)
The GEO Group · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$208,500
Contributions the company reports its employee-funded connected PAC made. Not corporate treasury money.
The GEO Group published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
A connected-PAC total is not corporate money and does not establish that any disbursement influenced or caused a government decision.
Direct lobbying expense
The GEO Group · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$5,371,336
Reported lobbying expense under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. An expense, not a contribution to any candidate or committee.
The GEO Group published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
Reported lobbying expense does not establish that a meeting occurred beyond what was reported, that an official was persuaded, or that any award followed.
Corporate treasury (company funds)
CoreCivic · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$1,102,700
Contributions the company reports making from corporate funds. Not employee money, not a federal PAC ledger, not lobbying expense.
CoreCivic published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
The aggregate does not identify every recipient, refund, amendment or filing lineage, and does not establish that any contribution influenced or caused a government decision.
Connected PAC (employee-funded)
CoreCivic · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$130,434.08
Contributions the company reports its employee-funded connected PAC made. Not corporate treasury money.
CoreCivic published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
A connected-PAC total is not corporate money and does not establish that any disbursement influenced or caused a government decision.
Direct lobbying expense
CoreCivic · 2025 · Company disclosure — unaudited
$3,271,346.99
Reported lobbying expense under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. An expense, not a contribution to any candidate or committee.
CoreCivic published this 2025 figure in its own political activity and lobbying report.
What this does not establish
Reported lobbying expense does not establish that a meeting occurred beyond what was reported, that an official was persuaded, or that any award followed.
Subsidiary treasury into a non-contribution account
The GEO Group · 2026 · Primary government filing
$4,413,000
Receipts a recipient committee reported into a non-contribution account from a named subsidiary legal entity. Not a candidate contribution and not a company-reported aggregate.
MAGA Inc. reported five receipts from GEO Reentry Services LLC between 2025-10-09 and 2026-07-31 totalling $4,413,000.
What this does not establish
The filings establish what the recipient committee reported receiving. They do not resolve the donor entity's own federal contract or bid status, its tax classification, or its payment account, and they do not establish that any government decision followed.
For scale only · Separate-channel sum across both company reports: $14,301,217.07. The final sum combines separately reported channels for scale only; it is not a homogeneous influence-spending measure. Corporate funds account for 94.01% of the two companies’ disclosed political contributions.
Unreconciled figures inside a company report
Where a company's own report prints two different totals, both are shown as printed.
CoreCivic 2025 report — unreconciled internal difference
Company disclosure — unaudited; shown as printed
- Table A-1 summary — CoreCivic PAC contributions
- $130,434.08
- Table A-2 detail grand total
- $129,000.00
- Difference
- $1,434.08
The company's own 2025 report prints two different PAC totals and does not reconcile the difference.
What this does not establish
The difference does not establish misconduct, misstatement of intent, or any reporting violation. It establishes that a voluntary, unaudited company report needs reconciliation against transaction-level filings.
GEO Reentry Services LLC → MAGA Inc.
Five receipts the recipient committee reported, each with its own FEC locator, plus the legal-entity distinctions and the open federal-contractor question.
GEO Reentry Services LLC → MAGA Inc.
5 receipts reported by the recipient committee · as of 2026-08-21
$4,413,000
Subsidiary treasury into a non-contribution account. Not summed with any other channel.
| Date | Amount | Contributor as filed | Locator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | $413,000 | GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC | Schedule A, line 17, transaction SA17.5475, image 202608209903328714 · memo: NON-CONTRIBUTION: TAXED AS A CORPORATION |
| 2026-07-16 | $1,000,000 | GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC | Schedule A, line 17, transaction SA17.5476, image 202608209903328714 · memo: NON-CONTRIBUTION: TAXED AS A CORPORATION |
| 2026-04-24 | $1,000,000 | GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC | Schedule A, line 17, transaction SA17.5311, file 1978142, image 202605209870174576 · memo: NON-CONTRIBUTION: TAXED AS A CORPORATION |
| 2026-03-09 | $1,000,000 | GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC | Schedule A, line 17, transaction SA17.5251, file 1970306, image 202604209866614095 · memo: NON-CONTRIBUTION: TAXED AS A CORPORATION |
| 2025-10-09 | $1,000,000 | GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC | Schedule A, line 17, transaction SA17.4958, file 1930534, image 202601029793901862 · memo: NON-CONTRIBUTION: TAXED AS A CORPORATION |
What this does not establish
The filing establishes what MAGA Inc. reported receiving on this date from the entity named in the filing. It does not establish the donor entity's own federal contract or bid status, its tax classification, the account the funds came from, any parent-company liability, or any connection to a government award.
Exact legal entities
Named entities are never merged
The donor named in MAGA Inc.'s filings is GEO Reentry Services LLC. SEC subsidiary exhibits list GEO Reentry Services, LLC and GEO Reentry, Inc. as separate entities. Nothing recorded for one entity is attributed to the other, and nothing recorded for a subsidiary is attributed to The GEO Group, Inc.
GEO Reentry Services LLC
Limited liability company
Not the same as · GEO Reentry, Inc.; The GEO Group, Inc.
SEC subsidiary exhibits list GEO Reentry Services, LLC among The GEO Group, Inc. subsidiaries.
What this does not establish
A parent relationship does not transfer contract status, bid status, tax classification or liability between entities, and it does not make this LLC interchangeable with GEO Reentry, Inc.
GEO Reentry, Inc.
Corporation
Not the same as · GEO Reentry Services LLC; The GEO Group, Inc.
Listed separately from GEO Reentry Services, LLC in the 2024 SEC subsidiary exhibit. The 2025 exhibit does not list it, which does not establish dissolution or inactivity because Exhibit 21 may omit non-significant subsidiaries.
What this does not establish
Nothing recorded for this entity may be attributed to GEO Reentry Services LLC.
The GEO Group, Inc.
Corporation
Not the same as · GEO Reentry Services LLC; GEO Reentry, Inc.
What this does not establish
Parent-level disclosures do not establish which subsidiary held a contract, made a payment, or bid on federal work.
Contractor-status review, by contribution date
For each reported receipt date: the exact prime recipient named in the reviewed Houston records, which donor-status questions remain unresolved, and the legal conclusion, which is not determined.
Contractor-status review, by contribution date
5 contribution dates · donor of record GEO Reentry Services, LLC · as of 2026-08-21
Exact donor not identified as the Houston prime recipient; bidder, other-contract, tax, and source-account status remain unresolved.
| Date | Amount | Known Houston prime recipient at that date | Donor match | Legal conclusion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-09 | $1,000,000 | 15BRRC21D00000242 — GEO Reentry, Inc. (sibling corporation)official USAspending IDV active through June 30, 2026 | Not identified in reviewed Houston prime records | Not determined |
| 2026-03-09 | $1,000,000 | 15BRRC21D00000242 — GEO Reentry, Inc. (sibling corporation)official USAspending IDV active through June 30, 2026 | Not identified in reviewed Houston prime records | Not determined |
| 2026-04-24 | $1,000,000 | 15BRRC21D00000242 — GEO Reentry, Inc. (sibling corporation)official USAspending IDV active through June 30, 2026 | Not identified in reviewed Houston prime records | Not determined |
| 2026-07-16 | $1,000,000 | 15BRRC26D00000003 — GEO Reentry, Inc. (sibling corporation)BOP current contractor directory; award timing additionally appears in a SAM-data mirror pending official snapshot | Not identified in reviewed Houston prime records | Not determined |
| 2026-07-31 | $413,000 | 15BRRC26D00000003 — GEO Reentry, Inc. (sibling corporation)BOP current contractor directory; award timing additionally appears in a SAM-data mirror pending official snapshot | Not identified in reviewed Houston prime records | Not determined |
2025-10-09 · $1,000,000 · transaction SA17.4958
- Donor of record
- GEO Reentry Services, LLC
- Donor operational role
- Court-described owner/operator of Leidel in 2025 — not a prime-contract role
- Bid or negotiation status
- Unresolved
- Other direct federal contract
- Unresolved
- Federal subaward status
- Unresolved
- Tax election
- Recipient-reported corporate treatment, not independently verified
- Source account
- Unresolved
- Procurement context
- New Houston procurement was publicly pending; all offerors not identified.
- Legal conclusion
- Not determined
What this does not establish
This status review does not determine that the receipt was lawful or prohibited, and does not establish that the donor LLC had no other federal contract or bid.
- Detention Receipts reviewed Wave 8 packet — Five GEO Reentry Services LLC receipts reported by MAGA Inc. · retrieved 2026-08-21
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs · retrieved 2026-08-21
2026-03-09 · $1,000,000 · transaction SA17.5251
- Donor of record
- GEO Reentry Services, LLC
- Donor operational role
- Court-described owner/operator of Leidel in 2025 — not a prime-contract role
- Bid or negotiation status
- Unresolved
- Other direct federal contract
- Unresolved
- Federal subaward status
- Unresolved
- Tax election
- Recipient-reported corporate treatment, not independently verified
- Source account
- Unresolved
- Procurement context
- New Houston procurement was publicly pending; all offerors not identified.
- Legal conclusion
- Not determined
What this does not establish
This status review does not determine that the receipt was lawful or prohibited, and does not establish that the donor LLC had no other federal contract or bid.
- Detention Receipts reviewed Wave 8 packet — Five GEO Reentry Services LLC receipts reported by MAGA Inc. · retrieved 2026-08-21
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs · retrieved 2026-08-21
2026-04-24 · $1,000,000 · transaction SA17.5311
- Donor of record
- GEO Reentry Services, LLC
- Donor operational role
- Court-described owner/operator of Leidel in 2025 — not a prime-contract role
- Bid or negotiation status
- Unresolved
- Other direct federal contract
- Unresolved
- Federal subaward status
- Unresolved
- Tax election
- Recipient-reported corporate treatment, not independently verified
- Source account
- Unresolved
- Procurement context
- New Houston award was reported to GEO Reentry, Inc.; all offerors still not identified.
- Legal conclusion
- Not determined
What this does not establish
This status review does not determine that the receipt was lawful or prohibited, and does not establish that the donor LLC had no other federal contract or bid.
- Detention Receipts reviewed Wave 8 packet — Five GEO Reentry Services LLC receipts reported by MAGA Inc. · retrieved 2026-08-21
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs · retrieved 2026-08-21
2026-07-16 · $1,000,000 · transaction SA17.5476
- Donor of record
- GEO Reentry Services, LLC
- Donor operational role
- Court-described owner/operator of Leidel in 2025 — not a prime-contract role
- Bid or negotiation status
- Unresolved
- Other direct federal contract
- Unresolved
- Federal subaward status
- Unresolved
- Tax election
- Recipient-reported corporate treatment, not independently verified
- Source account
- Unresolved
- Procurement context
- New Houston award was reported to GEO Reentry, Inc.; all offerors still not identified.
- Legal conclusion
- Not determined
What this does not establish
This status review does not determine that the receipt was lawful or prohibited, and does not establish that the donor LLC had no other federal contract or bid.
- Detention Receipts reviewed Wave 8 packet — Five GEO Reentry Services LLC receipts reported by MAGA Inc. · retrieved 2026-08-21
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs · retrieved 2026-08-21
2026-07-31 · $413,000 · transaction SA17.5475
- Donor of record
- GEO Reentry Services, LLC
- Donor operational role
- Court-described owner/operator of Leidel in 2025 — not a prime-contract role
- Bid or negotiation status
- Unresolved
- Other direct federal contract
- Unresolved
- Federal subaward status
- Unresolved
- Tax election
- Recipient-reported corporate treatment, not independently verified
- Source account
- Unresolved
- Procurement context
- New Houston award was reported to GEO Reentry, Inc.; all offerors still not identified.
- Legal conclusion
- Not determined
What this does not establish
This status review does not determine that the receipt was lawful or prohibited, and does not establish that the donor LLC had no other federal contract or bid.
- Detention Receipts reviewed Wave 8 packet — Five GEO Reentry Services LLC receipts reported by MAGA Inc. · retrieved 2026-08-21
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Operating a facility on behalf of a federal agency does not by itself establish that the operator is the direct federal contracting person.
- A prime award to GEO Reentry, Inc. cannot be assigned to GEO Reentry Services, LLC.
- No-result award searches do not prove that no other contract or bid existed.
- The FEC memo stating corporate tax treatment is recipient-reported and is not an independently obtained tax-election record.
- No reviewed record determines that any of the five receipts was lawful or prohibited.
Conclusions deliberately withheld
- Not published: The donor LLC was a federal contractor on a contribution date.
- Not published: The donor LLC was not a federal contractor on a contribution date.
- Not published: The donor LLC bid on the Houston solicitation.
- Not published: The donor LLC did not bid on the Houston solicitation.
- Not published: The contributions violated federal law.
- Not published: The contributions were cleared or conclusively lawful.
- Not published: MAGA Inc. knew or should have known any contributor was ineligible.
Reviewed records naming each entity
Shown separately · never aggregated
GEO REENTRY INC
direct-federal-prime-idv · 15BRRC21D00000242 · Department of Justice / Federal Bureau of Prisons
Houston residential reentry center and home-confinement services.
2021-01-01 through 2026-06-30 · UEI KDQ3R3N44ZJ1 · observed-primary-government-record
What this does not establish
This award does not establish that GEO Reentry Services, LLC held the prime contract.
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
GEO Reentry, Inc.
current-federal-contractor-directory · 15BRRC26D00000003 · Department of Justice / Federal Bureau of Prisons
Current Houston residential reentry center contractor directory record.
Expires 2031-06-30 · observed-primary-government-record
What this does not establish
The BOP directory identifies GEO Reentry, Inc., not the donor LLC, as the contractor.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
procurement-timeline
procurement-timeline · 15BRRC26D00000003
attributed-secondary-official-data-mirror · review-pending-official-sam-snapshot
What this does not establish
The public mirror does not identify every offeror and therefore does not establish whether the donor LLC bid or negotiated.
- SAM.gov record mirrored by FBO Daily — Houston RRC presolicitation · retrieved 2026-08-21
- GovTribe — Houston BOP award and procurement timeline mirror · retrieved 2026-08-21
GEO Reentry Services, LLC
judicially-described-operational-role · Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., No. 4:25-cv-02156, Dkt. 82
owner-and-operator-described-by-court
Record date 2025-07-28 · observed-primary-court-document-mirror
What this does not establish
Owning or operating a facility on behalf of BOP does not, without the contract instrument, establish direct contractual privity with the United States.
GEO Reentry Services, LLC
historical-enforcement-analysis
FEC counsel reported that the entity had federal, state, and local government contracting history, based on the GEO respondents’ response.
Record date 2017-06-15 · observed-primary-enforcement-document
What this does not establish
The 2017 report does not establish a direct federal contract or bid on any 2025–2026 contribution date and did not determine the LLC’s IRS tax election.
- Federal Election Commission, Office of General Counsel — MUR 7180 First General Counsel’s Report · retrieved 2026-08-21 · PDF pages 5, 8 and 12; report pages 5, 8 and 12
- Federal Election Commission — MUR 7180 docket and disposition · retrieved 2026-08-21
GEO REENTRY SERVICES, LLC
state-contract-control · C2832 · Florida Department of Corrections
Everglades ReEntry Center comprehensive reentry services.
observed-primary-state-contract-record
What this does not establish
A state contract is not a direct federal contract and does not trigger the federal-contractor prohibition merely because federal funds might exist elsewhere.
- Florida Department of Financial Services — Contract C2832 — Everglades ReEntry Center · retrieved 2026-08-21
Each record below stands alone. Nothing here is combined, netted or totalled, and no record determines whether any receipt was permitted or prohibited.
Why these entities cannot be merged
Exact legal names · roles kept apart
GEO Reentry Services, LLC
Florida limited liability company · Florida document L12000160661 · active
Filed contributor name: GEO REENTRY SERVICES LLC
SEC subsidiary exhibits list the LLC as a subsidiary of The GEO Group, Inc.
Candidate identifiers held back — Review pending — official SAM snapshot: Secondary SAM-registration mirror; do not publish as verified until an official SAM snapshot is stored.
Not the same as: GEO Reentry, Inc.; The GEO Group, Inc.; GEO Corrections Holdings, Inc.
What this does not establish
Corporate affiliation does not transfer a sibling corporation’s prime-contract or bidder status to this LLC.
- Florida Division of Corporations — GEO Reentry Services, LLC entity record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. subsidiaries, Exhibit 21.1 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- HigherGov — GEO Reentry Services LLC federal registration profile · retrieved 2026-08-21
GEO Reentry, Inc.
Delaware corporation · Verified UEI KDQ3R3N44ZJ1
Not the same as: GEO Reentry Services, LLC; The GEO Group, Inc.
What this does not establish
A federal prime award to this corporation is not a federal prime award to GEO Reentry Services, LLC.
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242 · retrieved 2026-08-21
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record · retrieved 2026-08-21
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. subsidiaries, Exhibit 21.1 · retrieved 2026-08-21
The GEO Group, Inc.
Florida corporation
Not the same as: GEO Reentry Services, LLC; GEO Reentry, Inc.
What this does not establish
Parent-company federal contracting does not by itself establish the donor LLC’s direct contractor status.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. subsidiaries, Exhibit 21.1 · retrieved 2026-08-21
Three separate legal entities are involved. An award naming one of them is not an award naming another, and operating a facility is not the same as holding the contract for it.
What remains needed
6 open records questions · none is a finding
Did GEO Reentry Services, LLC hold any direct federal prime contract on a contribution date outside the reviewed Houston records?
Open · No legal conclusion.
- Records needed: Official USAspending exact-name and UEI results
- Records needed: FPDS/SAM entity-award export
- Records needed: Novations, predecessor and successor records
Did GEO Reentry Services, LLC respond to, bid on, or negotiate the 2024–2026 Houston BOP procurement or another federal solicitation?
Open · Contribution-period prohibition cannot be resolved because the ban can begin before award.
- Records needed: Bidders list
- Records needed: Source-selection record
- Records needed: Offeror correspondence
- Records needed: Proposal receipt log
- Records needed: Competitive range and negotiation records
Was GEO Reentry Services, LLC a subawardee or affiliate service provider under a sibling prime?
Open · Operational role remains distinct from direct federal contractual privity.
- Records needed: Federal subaward records
- Records needed: Intercompany service agreement
- Records needed: Invoices and payment ledger
What IRS tax classification did the LLC use on each receipt date?
Open · The filing memo is shown as recipient-reported classification, not independent proof.
- Records needed: MAGA Inc. LLC donor-response form
- Records needed: W-9 or equivalent certification
- Records needed: Tax-election representation
Which legal entity owned the account from which each payment was made?
Open · No source-of-funds or contribution-in-the-name-of-another conclusion.
- Records needed: Contribution check or wire record
- Records needed: Bank-account title
- Records needed: General-ledger entry
- Records needed: Intercompany funding record
What eligibility review did MAGA Inc. perform for the LLC receipts?
Open · No conclusion about committee knowledge, best efforts, or acceptance of a prohibited source.
- Records needed: Donor questionnaire
- Records needed: Compliance correspondence
- Records needed: Legal review
- Records needed: Refund or redesignation records
These are records the reviewed sources do not contain. A missing record is a gap in the evidence, not a finding about anyone's conduct, and a search that returned nothing does not establish that nothing exists.
Reported disbursements and current institutional roles
Two separately observed facts, placed side by side and nothing more.
A reported PAC disbursement and a current institutional role are two separately observed facts. Their overlap does not establish that any contribution changed a vote, hearing, appropriation, contract or oversight action.
| Reported by | Recipient | Reported amount | Dates | Current institutional role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreCivic PAC | Andrew Garbarino | $10,000 | 2025-09-23, 2026-04-22 | Chair, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security What this does not establish The records establish PAC disbursements and a current office role. They do not establish influence, exchange, or action taken because of the money. |
| CoreCivic PAC | Katie Britt | $2,500 | 2025-09-23 | Chair, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security What this does not establish The records establish a PAC disbursement and a current appropriations role. They do not establish influence, exchange, or action taken because of the money. |
| CoreCivic PAC | Bill Hagerty | $2,500 | 2025-09-23 | Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security What this does not establish The records establish a PAC disbursement and a committee role only. |
| CoreCivic PAC | Shelley Moore Capito | $2,500 | 2025-10-20 | Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security What this does not establish The records establish a PAC disbursement and a committee role only. |
| CoreCivic PAC | Cindy Hyde-Smith | $2,500 | 2025-10-20 | Member, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security What this does not establish The records establish a PAC disbursement and a committee role only. |
| CoreCivic PAC | Susan Collins | $5,000 | 2026-04-22 | Chair, Senate Committee on Appropriations What this does not establish The records establish a PAC disbursement and a committee role only. |
Prior public service in company roles
Company proxy-statement biographies, reproduced as disclosed.
These are company proxy-statement biographies. Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information or contract causation. No record here is scored, ranked or converted into an access claim.
Matthew T. Albence
The GEO Group · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Senior Vice President, Client Relations
- Prior public role
- ICE roles from May 2012 through August 2020, culminating as Acting Director
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Daniel Ragsdale
The GEO Group · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Senior Vice President, Contract Administration and Compliance
- Prior public role
- ICE, 1996–2017; Deputy Director, 2012–2017
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Julie Myers Wood
The GEO Group · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Director
- Prior public role
- Head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2006–2008
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Paul Laird
The GEO Group · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Senior Vice President, Secure Services
- Prior public role
- 29 years at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, including Regional Director
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Stacia A. Hylton
CoreCivic · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Director
- Prior public role
- Director, U.S. Marshals Service, 2010–2015; Federal Detention Trustee, 2004–2010
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Harley G. Lappin
CoreCivic · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Director; former CoreCivic EVP and Chief Corrections Officer
- Prior public role
- Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2003–2011
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Thurgood Marshall Jr.
CoreCivic · company proxy biography
- Company role
- Director; chair of board Risk Committee
- Prior public role
- Former White House Cabinet Secretary and Senate committee counsel
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Investigation queue
Open questions and pending records requests. Nothing here is a finding.
These are open questions and pending records requests. None of them is a finding, and none carries a conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Resolve the donor LLC's federal contract and bid status for each date, obtain its tax classification and bank-account attribution, and preserve the exact FEC amendment lineage.
Open · unresolved
MAGA Inc. reported $4.413 million from GEO Reentry Services LLC across five receipts
What this does not establish
The donor named in the filing is GEO Reentry Services LLC. SEC exhibits establish it as a GEO subsidiary, but they also distinguish it from GEO Reentry, Inc. The current record does not establish that the donor LLC itself held or negotiated a federal contract during each donation. Therefore this packet does not characterize the receipts as illegal federal-contractor contributions.
Build recipient-level state and 527 ledgers, beginning with Florida, while preserving company treasury, employee PAC, 527, and federal PAC semantics as separate channels.
Open · unresolved
Corporate treasury money, not employee PAC money, dominates disclosed political contributions
What this does not establish
These are company-published aggregates with different recipient categories and legal channels. They are not interchangeable with federal PAC transactions, lobbying expense, independent expenditures, or contract revenue.
Request or reconstruct the omitted line(s) from federal and state transaction records.
Open · unresolved
CoreCivic's 2025 political report contains a $1,434.08 PAC reconciliation discrepancy
What this does not establish
The discrepancy is small relative to the total and does not establish misconduct. It does establish that voluntary company disclosure should be reconciled against underlying filings rather than treated as self-authenticating.
Obtain appraisals, fairness materials, negotiation records, management-contract amendments, and government buy-versus-lease analyses for each public acquisition.
Open · unresolved
Public purchases of detention real estate become private capital-allocation events
What this does not establish
These sequences are documented corporate finance. They do not, by themselves, establish overpayment, favoritism, unlawful subsidy, or that a particular public dollar funded a particular share repurchase.
Map subsidiary-level awards and subawards for pharmacy, transport, medical, monitoring, and case-management services to the same people and facilities.
Open · unresolved
The detention companies are expanding across the custody lifecycle
What this does not establish
Vertical breadth does not establish improper tying or self-dealing. It does identify where subcontracts, related-party pricing, bundled procurements, and cross-segment incentives deserve review.
Request ethics agreements, recusal statements, post-employment reviews, meeting calendars, and communications where legally obtainable.
Open · unresolved
Former detention administrators occupy client-relations, contract-compliance, operations, and board-oversight roles
What this does not establish
Prior public service followed by private employment is not evidence of influence, preferential access, misuse of information, or contract causation. The placement of those biographies nevertheless defines a concrete relationship map for further records work.
Build a time-aware decision ledger for hearings, letters, votes, markups, appropriations, and facility-specific interventions, with no causation edge absent direct evidence.
Open · unresolved
Reviewed CoreCivic PAC disbursements overlap current DHS oversight and appropriations roles
What this does not establish
A PAC contribution and an institutional role are separately observed facts. The overlap does not establish that the contribution changed a vote, hearing, appropriation, contract, or oversight action.
Seek visitor logs, calendars, meeting materials, procurement communications, and HHS/ACF/BOP contract dockets matching the filing period.
Open · unresolved
A GEO outside-firm filing names White House, HHS, ACF, and BOP work on detention-center contracts
What this does not establish
The filing establishes the registrant's disclosure, not that any meeting occurred beyond what was reported, that any official was persuaded, or that any contract resulted.
Ingest Florida Division of Elections transactions, resolve recipients, and compare against facility management contracts, state procurement, appropriations, and executive actions.
Open · unresolved
Florida is GEO's largest disclosed state and local political-contribution basin
What this does not establish
The aggregate does not identify every recipient, filing lineage, refund, or related state action. No recipient-level conclusion is published from the aggregate alone.
Records request: GEO Reentry Services LLC and MAGA Inc.
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- Every contract, order, grant, cooperative agreement, bid, proposal, or novation naming `GEO Reentry Services LLC`
- Entity identifiers: UEI, DUNS, CAGE, TIN/EIN where releasable, SAM registration, parent and predecessor fields
- Contract performance and negotiation dates covering 2025-10-09 through 2026-07-31
- Any responsibility determinations and representations concerning federal-contractor political activity
- Raw Schedule A versions for transaction IDs `SA17.4958`, `SA17.5251`, `SA17.5311`, `SA17.5476`, and `SA17.5475`
- Filing amendments, donor correspondence, attribution forms, refund records, and committee review notes
- The LLC donor-response form and tax-classification representation, if obtained by MAGA Inc.
- Donor authorization and approval records
- Account ownership and source-of-funds documentation
- Board or officer approval
- Internal legal review of federal-contractor restrictions
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Records request: Florida political contributions
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- GEO Group and every GEO subsidiary
- 2024–2026 corporate contributions
- Refunds, amendments, transfers, committees, candidates, and electioneering entities
- Recipient committee officers and affiliated organizations
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Records request: Public facility acquisitions
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- Independent appraisals and valuation reports
- Buy-versus-lease analyses
- Negotiation memoranda and approval chains
- Environmental, title, condition, and capital-needs assessments
- Management-contract amendments after public purchase
- Government estimates of lifecycle operating cost
- Competing offers, market comparables, and fairness materials
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Records request: Lobbying contacts
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- Calendars, visitor logs, meeting invitations, agendas, attendee lists
- Presentations, leave-behinds, procurement forecasts, and follow-up correspondence
- Procurement-integrity and ethics reviews
- Meeting records involving named lobbyists and company executives
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Records request: Revolving-door controls
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- Post-employment ethics opinions
- Recusal agreements
- 18 U.S.C. § 207 guidance
- Agency ethics-office communications
- Waivers or screening arrangements
- Company-side compliance policies governing former officials
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Records request: Vertical-service contracting
Open · unresolved
Named records that would resolve an open question in this wave.
- Pharmacy
- Medical staffing
- Transportation
- Food
- Electronic monitoring
- Location monitoring
- Case management
- Reentry
- Facility maintenance and construction
What this does not establish
A pending records request is not a finding and carries no conclusion about any person, entity or agency.
Source docket
Every record cited on this page.
- Federal Election Commission — MAGA Inc. committee overview and filings
Official committee identity, filing coverage, and receipt context
- Federal Election Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. Political Action Committee
Official PAC identity and current-cycle totals
- Federal Election Commission — CoreCivic PAC committee overview
Official PAC identity and current-cycle totals
- Federal Election Commission — MUR 7180 — GEO Corrections Holdings, Inc.
Historical federal-contractor enforcement analogue and exact procedural disposition
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors
Official contractor-prohibition rules and LLC boundary
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. Exhibit 21.1 — subsidiaries as of Dec. 31, 2025
Establishes GEO Reentry Services LLC as a GEO subsidiary
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. Exhibit 21.1 — subsidiaries as of Dec. 31, 2024
Shows GEO Reentry Services LLC and GEO Reentry, Inc. as separate legal entities
- The GEO Group, Inc. — Political Activity and Lobbying Report 2025
Company-published corporate political, PAC, state, 527, lobbying, and trade-association totals
- CoreCivic, Inc. — Political Activity and Lobbying Report 2025
Company-published political and lobbying totals and internal reconciliation discrepancy
- CoreCivic, Inc. — CoreCivic Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results
Facility sales, expected continuing management, debt repayment, pharmacy acquisition, and capital strategy
- CoreCivic, Inc. — CoreCivic Announces $500 Million Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement
Observed ASR agreement and initial expected share delivery
- The GEO Group, Inc. — Sale of Lawton Correctional Facility for $312 million
Public-asset sale and stated use of proceeds
- The GEO Group, Inc. — Second Quarter 2025 results and $300 million share repurchase program
Western Region acquisition, debt repayment, and share-repurchase authorization
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — GEO filing — Lawton sale and Western Region acquisition
Accounting gain, like-kind exchange, tax savings, and uses of proceeds
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. 2026 proxy statement
Current leadership and prior-government-service biographies
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — CoreCivic, Inc. 2026 proxy statement
Current directors and prior-government-service biographies
- U.S. Senate / House Lobbying Disclosure — The GEO Group, Inc. in-house LD-2, Q2 2026
Current lobbying expense, issue descriptions, and contacted institutions
- U.S. Senate / House Lobbying Disclosure — Checkmate Government Relations for GEO, Q2 2026
Detention-center-contract lobbying, named agencies, lobbyists, and covered positions
- U.S. Senate / House Lobbying Disclosure — CoreCivic in-house LD-2, 2025 filing
Budget, reconciliation, detention-facility construction, management, and acquisition issues
- U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security — Chairman Andrew Garbarino
Current institutional role
- U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations — Homeland Security Subcommittee
Current subcommittee membership and jurisdiction
- Federal Election Commission — MAGA Inc. committee profile and filings
Recipient committee identity and filing context.
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors
Defines contractor and bidder prohibition and its time window.
- Federal Election Commission — Federal government contractors (2024)
Clarifies that the basic contractual relationship must be directly with the United States or a federal agency.
- Federal Election Commission — Commission adopts sample donor response form for contributions by LLCs
Establishes the expected LLC eligibility and attribution information sought by recipient committees.
- Federal Election Commission, Office of General Counsel — MUR 7180 First General Counsel’s Report
Historical entity, contractor-ban, tax-election and separate-entity analysis.
- Federal Election Commission — MUR 7180 docket and disposition
Exact procedural history: reason-to-believe vote, split probable-cause votes and closure.
- USAspending.gov — IDV 15BRRC21D00000242
Identifies GEO REENTRY INC as the old Houston BOP prime recipient through June 30, 2026.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons — Houston Residential Reentry Center contractor directory record
Identifies GEO Reentry, Inc. and current contract 15BRRC26D00000003.
- SAM.gov record mirrored by FBO Daily — Houston RRC presolicitation
Establishes public procurement timing and referenced RFP locator pending official SAM snapshot.
- GovTribe — Houston BOP award and procurement timeline mirror
Discovery source for award date, value and related solicitation notices.
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, mirrored by Justia — Price v. GEO Reentry Services, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, Docket 82
Describes GEO Reentry Services, LLC as Leidel’s owner/operator and the facility as operating on behalf of BOP.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — The GEO Group, Inc. subsidiaries, Exhibit 21.1
Lists GEO Reentry Services, LLC and GEO Reentry, Inc. separately.
- Florida Division of Corporations — GEO Reentry Services, LLC entity record
Exact legal entity identity, form, document number and active status.
- HigherGov — GEO Reentry Services LLC federal registration profile
Discovery-only candidate UEI/CAGE and registration dates.
- Florida Department of Financial Services — Contract C2832 — Everglades ReEntry Center
Control showing an exact donor-LLC state contract and its non-federal status.