Warren, Raskin Lead 52 Lawmakers in Formal Inquiry to Six Detention Contractors and Real Estate Firms Over Trump Warehouse Detention Buildout

On March 29, 2026, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Jamie Raskin sent letters to six companies about the administration’s warehouse-based ICE detention expansion. The press release is dated March 30, 2026. The letters ask for answers by April 13, 2026. The pair led 52 members of Congress in the inquiry.

Recipients

• PNK Group (Andrey Sharkov)
• CoreCivic
• GEO Group
• GardaWorld Federal Services
• Newmark Group
• KVG LLC

Signatories

Names as listed in the press release. Warren and Raskin lead. Press release: “Senators Edward Markey (D-MA), Bernard Sanders (D-VT), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Andy Kim (D-N.J.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) joined in signing the letters” Representatives on the list: Ansari, Balint, Brownley, Casten, Castro, Cherfilus-McCormick, Chu, Crockett, Dean, DeGette, Dexter, Escobar, Frost, Garcia (Jesus), Garcia (Sylvia), Goldman, Ivey, Jayapal, Johnson, Kamlager-Dove, Kelly (Robin), Lofgren, McClain Delaney, McClellan, McGovern, Menendez, Moulton, Nadler, Neguse, Norton, Omar, Ross, Ryan, Salinas, Scanlon, Schakowsky, Stansbury, Swalwell, Tlaib, Underwood, Ramirez, Beyer and Walkinshaw.

What the letters ask

Question 13 of the PNK letter asks whether the recipient will “commit to not allowing your goods, services, or property to be used to facilitate the operation of a warehouse that lacks the basic necessities for human habitation.” Other questions in the same letter ask about the recipient’s role, expected profit margin, lobbying, and donations to Trump campaigns, affiliated committees, and cabinet or administration appointees.

Specific facts cited in the PNK letter

• Planned spend: $38.3 billion is the amount the administration plans to spend on the warehouse system.
• Georgia facility: “ICE paid $129 million for a facility in Georgia — nearly five times the amount it was assessed for last year.” The letter does not name PNK as that facility’s seller or compare the price with PNK’s own acquisition price (see 2026-01-09–pnk-social-circle-dhs-detention-sale for the sale).
• Capacity goal: ICE plans to “increase bed capacity to 92,600 beds” and “activate all facilities by November 30, 2026”; the press release describes a system to “hold nearly 100,000 people by November 2026.”
• Acquisitions: the letter puts DHS spending at “close to $1 billion” on warehouses bought from owners such as PNK S1 LLC Group and the PCCP real estate firm, and describes PNK S1 LLC Group as “a subsidiary of a Russian-founded industrial developer.” It says nothing about Sharkov’s citizenship or when PNK left Russia.
• Procurement vehicle: the letter says the contract vehicle, “WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS”, lets ICE bypass competitive bidding. The letter does not tie PNK’s sale to that vehicle.

Quoted language from the letter

“These warehouses were built to hold products, not people.”

“Placing thousands of people in warehouses that were never intended to house human beings will only exacerbate these problems.”

Officials the letter names

• Todd Lyons (Acting ICE Director): the letter quotes the vision as “Prime, but with human beings.”
• David Venturella: the press release says he recently joined ICE after leaving the GEO Group and leads the division overseeing detention contracts.
• Pam Bondi: the press release calls her a former lobbyist for the GEO Group (see 2026-04-02–trump-fires-bondi-attorney-general).
• Tom Homan: the letter cites reports of him “trading promises of assistance with obtaining immigration contracts in exchange for a bag of $50,000 in cash.”
• Corey Lewandowski: the letter cites reports of him “requesting that the immigration contractor GEO Group pay him” in exchange for protecting and growing its DHS contracts.

Responses

Whether any recipient answered by the deadline is not established here. GEO Group’s quarterly results disclosure is in 2026-05-06–geo-group-q1-2026-results-raises-guidance. A search for public responses from the other recipients is still open (see Research Gaps).

Research Gaps

• What did each of the six recipients answer, and are the answers public?
• Did Sharkov respond personally, through counsel, or not at all?
• Have Warren and Raskin issued follow-up inquiries?
• KVG LLC is the least-documented recipient. What is its role and ownership?
• The letters to the five other recipients have not been read side by side with the PNK letter to see which questions are specific to each.

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