Word: hud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responsible for the committee, and I said what I should have done. But these things have always been a problem at HUD because of the way many of the laws have been written and the amounts of money involved: people came in with the developers, with their consultants, with so forth and so on, and they steered the program. This is not new. Man, it's gone this way for years...
...there an appearance of impropriety when ex-HUD officials form private businesses and then make money through HUD...
...only one on that committee who didn't have any kind of experience before she got to HUD was Deborah Dean. Dean worked like hell on learning the programs at HUD. She made it her business...
...believe that the vast majority of HUD's employees served me well. But there were rotten apples in and out of the HUD barrel. During my administration there were over 2,300 convictions of persons and firms doing business with HUD...
...someone's a crook, there would always be the chance that funds would be stolen. HUD's staff was reduced too much. Had there been more auditors and others checking on foreclosures funds of private escrow agents, it would have decreased the chances of money being stolen or lost...