WASHINGTON – A company tied to Youngstown-area businessman John J. Cafaro is under scrutiny after winning a no-bid federal contract to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has since turned green with algae and shed patches of new blue paint.
The National Park Service gave a $1.7 million contract to Greenwater Services of Brookfield to install a water-purification system in the pool, bypassing the competitive bidding process normally required for federal work, The New York Times reports. The firm’s ultimate owner is the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust, led by Cafaro, who is a longtime Republican donor and a Mar-a-Lago neighbor of President Donald Trump’s in Florida.
The water treatment company listed Cafaro’s Palm Beach mansion as its address in Florida corporate records and listed his investment trust’s phone number and email in Ohio lobbying records…