I have been writing about how political profiteer, Jamie Barker is cashing in by becoming a “partner” at a lobbying firm, Gilmore Davis Strategy Group, with Jon Gilmore as founding and managing partner.
As mentioned before, Jon Gilmore went to work for the consulting group, Deloitte, after Deloitte received hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts with the state of Arkansas.
From a column on X, Deloitte the cancer on American taxpayers, they reported, “Deloitte spends about $1.35 million/year on federal lobbying. Their PAC gave $3.6 million in the last election cycle, split evenly between parties. There’s a few million more in state-level contributions. These aren’t huge numbers by Washington, D.C. standards; not enough to buy outcomes directly. It’s honestly conservative in terms of spending. The issue is the revolving door of government employees that move between Deloitte and the government agencies that award contracts. State health directors leave the government and join Deloitte, managers from Deloitte take up state IT departments. Hill staffers that worked on healthcare policy show up at Deloitte.”
Clearly, they have the same tactics as a vampire. Get the first bite, and then the new victim continues to drain the taxpayer, not of blood, but their hard-earned money by “consulting” on programs.
What’s alarming and critical is that Jamie Barker, a 29-year politico, is now chair of the Arkansas Board of Corrections.
Do you care to guess what lobbying group has corrections and criminal justice consultant programs? Yes, Deloitte. Deloitte Consulting was awarded $16 million in December 2025 to the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons for the development of an automated staffing tool.
Forbes also released an article on the high-profile companies such as AT&T, Palantir, General Dynamics, Dell and more that have recently been awarded U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracts. Deloitte was awarded several multiyear contracts with ICE including a $24 million contract in 2023 to provide data modernization support through 2027.
Deloitte, as a major federal contractor, has had more than $30 billion in contracts over the past 20 years. Deloitte has also peddled programs to the government such as “Reducing Recidivism: An Ecosystem approach for successful reentry” for prisons.
During Covid, they produced “justice” programs to cash in and make more money. They did not want to pass up any way to suck more blood tax dollars from the people. Also, remember Deloitte has already sucked more than half a billion dollars since 2016 and will drain more than $700 million with their latest contract. State Senator Ben Gilmore of Crossett and Jamie Barker were part of the mechanism that made it all happen.
Now look for Deloitte with the Gilmores and Barker to make prisons and justice “reform” the new victim.
Bryan King