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...first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, won't be charged after a five-year probe of housing corruption scandals in the 1980s -- largely because government prosecutors have concluded that he is old and ill and didn't profit from alleged cronyism in the department. But Independent Counsel Arlin Adams said today that Pierce, 72, nicknamed "Silent Sam" for keeping a low profile during his government tenure, has admitted he created an environment that permitted aides to steer federal aid illegally to friends and political allies. "I realize that my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events...
Remember the HUD scandal? After spending two years and $4 million, special prosecutor Arlin Adams last week landed his first indictment of a former top department official: Lance Wilson, once executive assistant to ex-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce. Citing Wilson on 24 counts of fraud, conspiracy and false statements, a federal grand jury charged him with conspiring, after he left HUD for an investment firm, to steer $46 million in grants intended for poor urban areas to three housing projects developed by his business partner, Texan Leonard Briscoe...
...Atlantic, he felt no bitterness "toward the culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island, a bastion of old-line Yankees. Daughter Arlin, a | utility employee, is a Californian; Son Cap Jr., a public relations executive who was once president of the Operation Match computer dating service, lives in Washington...
...fourth-quarter Princeton drive died when split end Ed Arlin dropped a pass on the numbers in the endzone and Steve Potysman cradled an errant Reynolds spiral into his gut four plays later...
Down 14-0 at half time, the Tigers got their first tally as a result of a successful fake punt, their second thanks to two fourth and short yardage conversions. Ed Arlin hauled in a 23 yard pass from junior quarterback Ken Barrett for the final score...