Pete Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33million in city contracts

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33million in city contracts, raising concerns of ‘pay to play’ as Transportation Secretary doles out $210billion in infrastructure plan

• Documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg’s campaign took a total of $253,750 from 23 companies
• Company executives were then awarded a combined $33,310,426 in city contracts from the Board of Public Works whose members Buttigieg appointed 
• Buttigieg, 40 – now the US Transportation Secretary – will oversee $210billion in discretionary grants under the new bipartisan infrastructure bill
• But government watchdogs say the Democrat’s pattern of donations and contracts as mayor could present the appearance of a ‘pay to play’ scandal
• ‘This is alarming, and very concerning, because this is the swamp personified,’ Taxpayers Protection Alliance president David Williams told DailyMail.com