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Kristi Noem’s $108 million plane with a bedroom that Donald Trump gifted to Melania is at the center of an investigation by the Transportation Security Administration over an embarrassing paperwork blunder, PunchUp can reveal.
The Boeing 737-8 MAX Business Jet, which has become one of the most high-profile examples of the profligacy and alleged corruption in the Trump administration and whose tacky interior I exclusively revealed last month, was operated by Daedalus Aviation, a subsidiary of Salus Worldwide Solutions.
That contract—which forms part of a wider web of DHS deals around former Homeland Security Secretary Noem, 54, and her chief adviser and rumored lover, Corey Lewandowski, 54—is the subject of a sprawling corruption investigation by the DHS inspector general and Congress.
But I have learned that DHS transferred control of the aircraft to Salus’ rival, CSI Aviation, last week under mysterious circumstances—with calamitous results.