#new Rep. Ayanna Pressley's ex-con husband just scored a $2 billion contract from the State of Massachusetts
Conan Harris' team - Liberty Junction - won the deal to privately build and lease back a new $600 million courthouse in Springfield - to state taxpayers - for up to 60 years at a total cost about $2 billion.
As part of the deal, the public never owns the building.
Taxpayers would pay $30 million or more each year in rent under a 40-year lease, with two optional 10-year extensions, totaling around $2 billion.
At the end of the lease, the private owners keep the property.
Conan Harris served about 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking before marrying Pressley in 2014.
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#news Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband went from prison for drug trafficking, to making $1 million per year, at the same time Pressley entered into congress
The Democrat Rep's husband, Conan Harris, spent ten years behind bars for drug trafficking. Now he's a consultant earning a 7 figure salary - his wealth jump happened within a relatively short period of time.
Harris was released from prison in 2011. Between 2011 and 2019 - he made a typical salary working for the city.
In January 2019, three days before Pressley was sworn into her first term in the House, Harris quit his city job, and launched a management consulting firm.
The firm's earnings immediately skyrocketed, going from next to nothing in 2019 to up to $1 million per year in 2024, according to Pressley's congressional financial disclosures.
The business secured contracts with NGOs, businesses, and organizations that are involved in government-backed initiatives
This has added to the couple's exploding wealth that went from about -$12,500 in 2018, a year before her election, to about $8 million in 2024.
Pressley, who earns a congressional salary of $174,000, has faced accusations of corruption and hypocrisy from the right,
She has pushed for rent cancellation, taxpayer-funded housing relief, and anti-landlord policies, all while profiting as a landlord herself.
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