Thank God the Trump administration actually has ethics.
Not the performative, ribbon-cutting, hashtag-heavy ethics of the Left, but the old-fashioned kind where you don’t quietly kill billion-dollar fraud cases right after a donor wires you a check.
Because if Trump had participated in the kind of frauds normalized under the Obama and Biden administrations, his net worth wouldn’t just dwarf Elon Musk’s. It would blot out the sun. Trump doesn’t sell himself on the cheap. Democrats do. They practically run a clearance aisle for influence. Buy one regulation, get a federal grant free. Donate now, accountability postponed indefinitely.
And that brings us to a crime so aggressively buried by Obama’s and Biden’s Department of Justice that it deserves its own archaeological exhibit.
The case is laid out in detail here, for those who prefer facts over feelings.
Understand that what you will learn through this article is this fraud isn’t a technical paperwork error or a misunderstanding. This smells like industrial-scale fraud involving federal set-aside programs. The very programs Democrats love to sermonize about while simultaneously treating them like an all-you-can-eat buffet for their friends.
Set-aside programs exist for a reason.
They reserve government benefits for small, disadvantaged businesses so those firms can compete against corporate giants with legal teams larger than most towns. The idea is simple. Level the playing field. Prevent monopolies. Encourage real competition.
The scam is simpler.
Big companies do the work. Small, “disadvantaged” companies serve as cardboard cutouts. A Potemkin village of diversity. A minority-owned fig leaf taped over a billion-dollar operation. Everyone gets paid. Taxpayers get robbed. And Democrats congratulate themselves for advancing “equity.”
Under Biden, equity doesn’t mean fairness. It means the right people win.
To its credit, the Trump administration actually treated this like a crime.
In June 2025, the Small Business Administration launched a comprehensive review of its 8(a) Business Development Program, starting with high-dollar, limited-competition contracts which targeted the biggest scams first.
The Treasury Department followed with its own probe into preference-based contracts, many of them awarded under Biden’s “equity-in-procurement” initiative.
Which brings us to the Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction of 2015. This is where the story stops being abstract and starts smelling like money.
DISH Network, allegedly, set up two sham entities to exploit a 25 percent discount on spectrum licenses. That discount was reserved for very small businesses, the kind that actually need help entering a market dominated by giants. DISH is not that. DISH is a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate with lobbyists, lawyers, and enough corporate insulation to survive a nuclear winter.
According to the evidence, these sham entities won $13.3 billion worth of licenses and paid only three-quarters of the cost by falsely claiming eligibility for the discount. That’s not clever accounting. That’s stealing billions from taxpayers while pretending to be a mom-and-pop startup.
This didn’t come from a partisan blogger or a Twitter thread. It came from a complaint filed by Vermont National Telephone Company under the False Claims Act. A real law. With real consequences. The kind that used to matter before the Obama DOJ turned into a political concierge service.
Under the Trump administration, the DOJ and the FCC filed a statement expressing the government’s interest in the case. The D.C. Circuit agreed that Vermont National had sufficiently alleged a cause of action. The case was heading to trial.
Accountability was knocking. Then Biden happened.
With just weeks left before discovery closed, the Biden Justice Department had what can only be described as a moral aneurysm. Suddenly, inexplicably, the DOJ announced it would seek dismissal of Vermont National’s case. Years of litigation. Mountains of evidence. A federal appeals court already green-lighting the claim. And then, poof. Never mind.
Now here’s where coincidence gets creative.
Less than a month before the DOJ signaled its intent to kill the case, DISH CEO Charlie Ergen and his wife collectively donated more than $100,000 to Biden’s re-election efforts. Days later, the Biden administration awarded DISH a $50 million grant.
Let’s pause. Not for outrage, but for the math.
One hundred thousand dollars, begets fifty million dollars. That’s not influence peddling; that’s influence liquidation. That’s selling your office at a yard sale price. That’s a return on investment Wall Street analysts would whisper about in reverent tones.
Talk about selling yourself on the cheap.
And Democrats wonder why foreign oligarchs line up to do business with them. China. Ukraine. Russia. Why wouldn’t they? The Biden brand comes with predictable pricing and minimal enforcement. Donate modestly. Receive generously. Investigations optional.
This isn’t just corruption. It’s lazy corruption.
Allowing Vermont National’s False Claims Act case to be dismissed after nearly a decade would reward what Senator Chuck Grassley accurately described as the rot infesting the Biden-Garland DOJ. A department weaponized against political enemies and monetized for political allies. Justice isn’t blind. It’s peeking through its fingers, checking donor lists.
And the damage doesn’t stop with one case. Killing a whistleblower action like this sends a message. Don’t bother. Don’t sacrifice your time, money, or reputation to expose fraud if the other side has better fundraising bundlers. The law will not protect you. It will disappear you.
Under Trump, the opposite message was sent. Fraud gets prosecuted. Whistleblowers matter. Programs meant to help the disadvantaged aren’t treated like slush funds for billionaires with good PR teams.
Letting Vermont National’s case proceed wouldn’t just hold DISH accountable. It could return billions to the U.S. Treasury. Actual money. Not theoretical social benefits. Real dollars. The kind Democrats claim they need every time they demand higher taxes.
So why were we never told about this transaction?
Because it’s embarrassing. Because it’s obvious. Because explaining how $100,000 in donations magically coincided with a $50 million grant and a DOJ reversal requires either dishonesty or silence. Democrats chose silence.
This story proves, yet again, that Democrats are for sale. Not to voters. Not to principles. To donors. And they don’t even demand top dollar. They sell fairness. They sell accountability. They sell the integrity of federal programs designed to help the smallest players.
And then they lecture you about morality.
That’s the real fraud.
