HOMELAND REPUBLICANS PROBE ICE BORDER CONTRACTS FOLLOWING BOMBSHELL NEW EVIDENCE EXPOSING POSSIBLE CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Letter
Acting Director Lechleitner
August 10, 2023
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Lorenzen-Strait admits that Cherokee Federal is not equipped to handle the contract.17 Mr.
Lorenzen-Strait also admits that while he is publicly involved with the company Deep Water
Point & Associates, he hides his participation in government contracts through the entities
VerdinPoint and The Tanager Group.18
Mr. Lorenzen-Strait's comments in the Project Veritas video are deeply disturbing. The
Committee is concerned that despite clear conflicts of interest and prior scrutiny, Mr. LorenzenStrait may be influencing ICE's contracts for migrant services with non-governmental and nonprofit organizations. Additionally, the Committee is concerned with Mr. Lorenzen-Strait's
relationships with current ICE contracting officials.
The Committee has been made aware that Mr. Lorenzen-Strait's former subordinate at
ICE, Ms. Claire Trickler-McNulty, is now the Assistant Director of the Office of Immigration
Program Evaluation. In this position she reviews and approves ICE contracts for migrant
housing, supervision, and services. Ms. Trickler-McNulty previously worked with Mr. LorenzenStrait in the Custody Programs Office. Additionally, Ms. Trickler-McNulty and Mr. LorenzenStrait previously worked together evaluating ICE contract awards. Mr. Lorenzen-Strait's
relationship with the current ICE contracting official calls into question ICE's impartiality in
contracts.
To assist the Committee in understanding any conflicts of interest in ICE contracts for
migrant services, please provide as soon as possible but no later than 5:00 pm on August 24,
2023:
1. All communications, including but not limited to, e-mail, between Claire TricklerMcNulty and Andrew Lorenzen-Strait from November 10, 2020 to the present;
2. All communications between Claire Trickler-McNulty and any employee, representative,
or official from VerdinPoint from September 9, 2022 to the present;
3. All communications between Claire Trickler-McNulty and any employee, representative,
or official from The Tanager Group from September 9, 2022 to the present;
4. All communications between Claire Trickler-McNulty and any employee, representative,
or official from Deep Water Point & Associates from September 9, 2022 to the present;
5. Documents sufficient to show the Office of Immigration Program Evaluation's process
for evaluating ICE contracts;
17 Id.
18 Id.
Acting Director Lechleitner
August 10, 2023
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6. Any and all documents referring or relating to ICE's Technical Evaluation Team
evaluation of contracts to establish the Family Case Management Program in 2015; and
7. All organizational charts for the Custody Programs Office from January 1, 2014 through
December 31, 2019.
An attachment contains instructions for responding to this request. Please contact the
Committee on Homeland Security Majority staff at (202) 226-8417 with any questions about this
request.
Per Rule X of the U.S House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security is
the principal committee of jurisdiction for overall homeland security policy, and has special
oversight functions of "all Government activities relating to homeland security, including the
interaction of all departments and agencies with the Department of Homeland Security."
Thank you for your prompt attention to this important matter.
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