Trump's NASA pick was once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos
Source: USA Today
April 25, 2025, 6:04 p.m. ET
President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 and faced lawsuits in two states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings.
Isaacman is a billionaire pilot and astronaut who founded the Shift4 Payments company as a teenager and commanded the first civilian space crew in 2021 aboard a SpaceX capsule. Isaacman's nomination is scheduled for a vote by the Senate Commerce Committee on April 30.
'Fugitive' arrest
In a February 22, 2010, press release titled, "Nevada Fugitive Captured at Canadian Border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it arrested Isaacman on a warrant for alleged fraud at the Washington state line. He was taken to a county jail for extradition to Nevada, where Clark County, home to Las Vegas, had issued the felony warrant. No further detail on the alleged fraud was provided.
According to jail records, he was released the next day. In a questionnaire in connection with his nomination to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Isaacman said he was returning from the Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, in February 2010 when he was detained by CBP for "drawing and passing checks without sufficient funds."
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Irish_Dem
(68,775 posts)Who else would a mob boss hire?
mdbl
(6,295 posts)Irish_Dem
(68,775 posts)viva la
(4,069 posts)Poor people go to prison for bouncing a check.
Igel
(36,736 posts)One case:
He said the arrest stemmed from a dispute with the Palms Casino resort in Las Vegas over a travel reimbursement the resort promised and failed to honor. Isaacman said he resolved the matter in less than 24 hours and the charges were dismissed. The court records were sealed, he said.
In a 2010 complaint filed in Connecticut, the Mohegan Sun said Isaacman had written four bad checks totaling $1 million. That action was eventually resolved and withdrawn, according to a court filing.
I usually wait until a jury's empaneled--or at least the person's arraigned--before concluding that the trial was actually held and a conviction secured.
viva la
(4,069 posts)Records sealed, so I guess we'll never know whether there were 4 bounced checks or it was "all a mistake."
bucolic_frolic
(49,994 posts)markodochartaigh
(2,707 posts)once arrested, accused of passing bad checks to casinos."
Well, he certainly seems qualified for this administration, but does he have any other qualifications?
/s
Onthefly
(829 posts)lostnfound
(16,930 posts)Probably DOGE will recommend privatizing anything that can turn a profit for him.
Paladin
(30,269 posts)That's the only question I want answered.
Mysterian
(5,543 posts)Are you proud, trump bumpkins, to have degraded your once- proud nation into a laughingstock?
travelingthrulife
(2,130 posts)Trump's a mob boss. It's how he keeps the cult in order.
LiberalArkie
(18,002 posts)Grins
(8,283 posts)Crowman2009
(3,063 posts)We're never going to Mars in our lifetime. It's just going to be a taxpayer money laundered to the South African Nazi.
Bengus81
(8,716 posts)are BS. Hell they'd need another one or two space stations to do that yet the only one we have is going to be dumped in the ocean in five years.
A manned mission would take years of weightlessness if all you did was fly there and come back. The last two people we got from the Space Station were like cripples when they got back Earth after nine months and even told not to shower for a period of time.
It's a pipe dream and Eloon and others wants to bag billions of $$$ of tax payer money playing around with this BS before they give up.
Crowman2009
(3,063 posts)We're not going to get very far on finite amounts of liquid propellant.
Polybius
(19,822 posts)But $2 million in bad checks? Oh hell no!
not fooled
(6,242 posts)Not trying to pay for medical care for a loved one...not to try to save his business...but to cover gambling debts???
Yeah, congrats maggots for turning the USA into a laughingstock.
Attilatheblond
(5,705 posts)And does Trump only appoint sketchy people because they will do sketchy things for him? Or are they easier to manipulate being as how they are sketchy and can be black mailed?
LisaM
(29,125 posts)$2,000,000 and casinos. I mean, c'mon.
LudwigPastorius
(12,286 posts)Another criminal con man elevated to a position so that he can destroy the institution he is entrusted to lead.
twodogsbarking
(13,457 posts)How I wish this were
AllaN01Bear
(24,857 posts)

Jacson6
(1,169 posts)
Jit423
(1,262 posts)PedroXimenez
(667 posts)perfect person to lead the space program
Marcuse
(8,318 posts)
Montauk6
(9,034 posts)