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These sources, who asked not to be identified by name, said Deborah Gore Dean has informed congressional investigators she can testify that Pierce personally ordered funding for specific projects under the Section 8 Moderate Rehabilitation program. The program was briefly suspended after HUD auditors criticized the selection process and said a number of prominent Republicans had donated millions of dollars to their clients...
...source said Dean was demanding immunity from prosecution in exchange for answering questions from the House subcommittee investigating abuses at HUD during Pierce's eight-year tenure as secretary...
...Dean earlier refused to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. She spent three years as Pierce's executive assistant, and has been described by former colleagues as wielding great influence at the agency...
Word on the negotiations between congressional investigators and Dean came as HUD officials more than doubled--to $1.1 billion--their estimate of the losses in one program suspended because of scandals plaguing the agency...
...There will be a good deal of satisfaction among students that this has happened," said Assistant Dean for Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67 yesterday. Dingman said Liem's name was "high" on a short list of candidates suggested by the house for the postion...