Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flood's dealings with the government of Haitian President for Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. During a visit to the island in 1973, Elko promised that Flood would increase U.S. aid. Within a month of Elko's return home, Congress approved $23.4 million in economic aid for Haiti, about 21/2 times as much as Haiti received during the previous year. In return, says Lucien Rigaud, a prominent Haitian businessman and former aide to Duvalier...
...Flood received veto power over which U.S. companies would be hired to set up the aid programs...
...Flood's involvement in the financing of a $65.1 million, 20-story addition to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. In 1975, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected the hospital's request for federal funds to build the wing. But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration. Later Flood urged the hospital to hire Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg's law firm in Philadelphia to arrange a bond issue that raised an added $39.5 million for the wing...
...Flood denies any wrongdoing. Moreover, admits one federal investigator: "If Flood took large sums of money, we haven't been able to trace it so far." Indeed, for all his personal flamboyance, Flood and his wife Catherine live modestly in a small frame house in Wilkes-Barre that is worth only about $20,000, though they do splurge on a new white Cadillac...
Born in Hazleton, Pa., Flood boxed at Syracuse University and, after graduation in 1924, joined a touring theatrical company. He performed in more than 50 productions, and grew his trademark mustache for the role of a plantation owner. Age and the wear and tear of his long-running performance on the Capitol Hill stage have lately begun to slow the headliner, who used to rock House debates with melodramatic oratory...