GEO Group Handed $250,000 in Dark Money to a Group Run by Jim Jordan's Former Chief of Staff
POGO's Nick Schwellenbach broke the story of GEO Group's $250K dark money donation to a Jim Jordan-aligned group in POGO Reports.
WASHINGTON — A quarter million dollars. That’s how much GEO Group — the country’s largest private ICE detention contractor — quietly slipped to a political organization tied to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, just days after Congress passed a law expected to make GEO extraordinarily rich.
The donation, first reported by Nick Schwellenbach of the Project on Government Oversight, was routed through a so-called “dark money” vehicle — a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that, by design, keeps its donors secret and faces no legal cap on contributions.
Eleven Days
GEO’s $250,000 landed on July 15, 2025 — eleven days after President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a law that nearly triples ICE’s budget and doubles immigrant detention capacity nationwide. GEO lobbied on the bill before it passed. Jordan was among its loudest champions, calling it the vehicle for “Big, Beautiful Deportations.”
The recipient, American Liberty Action Fund, shares its president, secretary, and treasurer with a Jordan-aligned…