Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Kristi Noem gave a $140 million contract for ICE’s deportation fleet to a firm whose chief executive led his previous airline into bankruptcy. Noem, 54, was dismissed as Homeland Security secretary by President Donald Trump, 79, this month amid a slew of allegations surrounding massive spending she oversaw at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This latest revelation, uncovered by the Daily Beast, adds a fresh dimension to the mounting questions over how contracts were awarded on her watch. Joshua Bustos is the chief executive of Daedalus Aviation, the two-year-old company awarded the deal in December to supply DHS with six Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for deportation flights. Read more at The Daily Beast.