Word: scandalous
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Whether as a pro quarterback or a political pro, Jack Kemp has always been nimble and quick. Those qualities came in handy last week, as he dealt with the scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has billowed from a candlestick into an inferno. Before celebrating his 54th birthday with 54 cakes from admiring employees, the beleaguered HUD chief wryly conceded, "When I first took the nomination from President Bush, I wanted to make HUD a high-profile agency. I don't think this is what I had in mind...
Kemp spent much of the rest of the week back among his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, fielding tough questions from two House subcommittees probing the scandal. For the first time, he put a price tag on the loss to taxpayers from the fraud and mismanagement under former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce: $2 billion. At least half of that appears to have been siphoned from a six-year- old program in which the Federal Housing Administration, an arm of HUD, shares the insurance of housing projects with private companies...
While he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Samuel Pierce was known as Silent Sam. Now, amid a burgeoning scandal at HUD, he is courting a new nickname: Invisible Sam. The House subcommittee on employment and housing would like to question him again, but, says a member, "finding him is tough...
WASHINGTON--A former top official from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony implicating former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce in the scandal over influence peddling at the housing agency, sources said yesterday...
From casinos to sports books to lotteries, gambling has mushroomed into a $278 billion business this year. A short while ago it was illegal; today its biggest promoters are the state governments. -- Despite the Marine spy scandal, U.S. investigators now contend that Soviet agents did not bug the Moscow embassy code room. See NATION...