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...Were HUD contracts awarded on the basis of political influence...
...Republicans and Democrats, former HUD officials, Congressmen, Governors, mayors and many others -- literally thousands of people -- communicated with me about their requests for housing under a variety of HUD programs. My general operating procedure was to send each request to the appropriate staff at HUD with instructions to consider it carefully, and if the request met the necessary requirements, grant it; if not, deny it. No request was to be given any special advantage because it was submitted by a Republican or was in some way associated with a Republican. My decisions were based on facts, law and logic...
...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...