Word: hud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year on fixing up run-down apartments and making them available to the poor with the help of federal rent subsidies. A report by Paul Adams, inspector general of Housing and Urban Development, suggests that the most effective way to get a housing project approved under President Reagan's HUD Secretary, Samuel Pierce, was for the developer to hire a prominent Republican as a "consultant" and pay him a substantial...
...fees included Richard Nixon's Attorney General, John Mitchell, who has since died; former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke; former Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn; Philip Winn, current U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland; and Frederick Bush, a close associate, but no relative, of President Bush's. Jack Kemp, the President's new HUD Secretary, has ordered the program stopped until recent grants are reviewed and new approval procedures created...
Kemp would like to see similar programs at other projects. The catch is that he wants to finance them largely with HUD funds that have been set aside for modernizing the complexes. To pay for the drug war, local housing authorities would have to sacrifice the installation of storm windows, new heating systems and other badly needed improvements. Robert McKay, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, complains of being faced with an "impossible choice between fixing up dwellings or fighting drugs -- and you have to do both." Moreover, housing officials are going to have less...
...other side to czardom is ready made for him. That task is to be a highly visible and articulate disturber of the complacent and the comfortable. Already Bennett has been on the phone to enlist the like-minded energy of HUD Secretary-designate Jack Kemp, saying, "You've got public housing, the K mart of drugs. Let's clean...
...cash in on the information, Hirsch alerted reporters and the U.S. Attorney's office. That led Warden Patrick R. Kane to shut down the operation last month and call in the U.S. Secret Service to investigate whether any of the data improperly fell into the hands of prisoners. HUD, says Kane, was "supposed to send in information that was not sensitive. If I've got your credit-card number, that's damn sensitive." So far, no frauds have turned...