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Kemp said he was suspending new and pending applications for the Retirement Service Center program, the third program he has moved against as a part of an investigation of suspected fraud and mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the administration of President Ronald W. Reagan...
THEFT OF FUNDS. The Justice Department last week launched a nationwide inquiry into a pattern of abuse by escrow agents who pocketed money they received from the sale of foreclosed homes over a four-year period. Among the targets is a Maryland woman, nicknamed "Robin Hud," who brags that she stole $5.5 million in HUD money and gave it to the poor...
...presided over the award of Section 8 grants, had little background in housing but plenty of ambition and family connections. A cousin of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Dean variously referred to Mitchell as her father or stepfather after he began living with her widowed mother Mary Gore Dean. At HUD, Deborah Dean served as a sort of gatekeeper, controlling access to Pierce and enjoying wide powers to block projects. She told the Wall Street Journal that the rent-subsidies program was "set up and designed to be a political program ((and)) we ran it in a political manner...
...HUD Secretary, Jack Kemp, promises to clean up the mess that Pierce and his cohort left behind. Kemp has canceled all 1989 Moderate Rehabilitation programs, called for an audit of 300 housing projects that have already received rent subsidies and demanded that 53 HUD field officers explain what happened to the funds that appear to be missing. "There's much work to do here, and I enjoy it," says Kemp. "President Bush has charged me with the responsibility to reform the agency from stem to stern, and that's what I intend to do." He has his task...
Breaking with Ronald Reagan's inaction, President Bush proposes an attack on acid rain, smog and toxic chemicals. -- A spreading scandal in federal housing programs shows how the greedy, instead of the needy, profited under former HUD secretary "Silent Sam" Pierce...