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Somehow its just hard for me to believe this- no matter how close him and his momma was :roll: :wink: :lol:

Not only was Meek’s mother a highly paid consultant for Stackhouse when the legislator steered the taxpayer dollars his way, the developer had a delinquent past and no experience constructing high-tech facilities. Meek, who represents Miami’s neediest neighborhoods in the U.S. House, claims he didn’t know Stackhouse was crooked or that his mother, Carrie Meek, was receiving tens of thousands of dollars and a luxury car from him.

September 26, 2007
Fla. Officials Got Illegal Cash From Developer
A shady developer who got a Florida congressman to steer millions of federal dollars to his flawed inner city project has been arrested and charged with felonies for illegally reimbursing employees for campaign contributions to various elected officials.

The developer, Dennis Stackhouse, made headlines in south Florida earlier this month when the media exposed his suspicious relationship with Democrat Representative Kendrick Meek, who helped him get public funding for a failed biopharmaceutical park in a predominantly black and poor section of Dade County.

Not only was Meek’s mother a highly paid consultant for Stackhouse when the legislator steered the taxpayer dollars his way, the developer had a delinquent past and no experience constructing high-tech facilities. Meek, who represents Miami’s neediest neighborhoods in the U.S. House, claims he didn’t know Stackhouse was crooked or that his mother, Carrie Meek, was receiving tens of thousands of dollars and a luxury car from him.

Carrie Meek had spent a decade in Congress as one of Florida’s most influential black lawmakers and her friendship with the troubled Boston developer opened plenty of doors for him in south Florida. But the grandiose $250 million biopharmaceutical park that was supposed to revive the inner city never got built and the failed effort ended up wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.

Now Stackhouse is in jail for making illegal campaign contributions to various public officials—including a county commissioner who strongly pushed for his project and a judge--during the time he was seeking public funding for the facility.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/index.shtml
 
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October 05, 2007
Housing Secretary Under Investigation

A Bush cabinet member recently investigated by the agency he heads for illegally granting contracts based on political affiliation is now under FBI investigation for getting a friend a lucrative no-bid government deal.

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Alphonso Jackson evidently helped a friend get $392,000 over a period of a year and a half as a construction manager in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

The contractor, William Hairston of Hilton Head Island South Carolina, is a longtime friend and golfing buddy of the housing secretary and his company (Hairston Construction) got the sweet government contract without having to bid for it competitively as required by federal law.

Earlier this year HUD’s inspector general launched a probe into whether Jackson urged his staff to consider contractors’ political leanings when awarding agency contracts. The housing secretary subsequently gave Congressional testimony denying that he steered deals to friends and administration supporters.

A former president of the Dallas Housing Authority, Jackson also drew attention during a public speech in 2006 for saying he had canceled a federal contract after the company’s president told him he did not like George W. Bush.

HUD has been plagued by scandal before. In 1999 Bill Clinton’s housing secretary, Henry Cisneros, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about payments to his former mistress. An influence-peddling scandal under Ronald Reagan led to the conviction of 16 people, including top aides to then HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/index.shtml
 
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October 12, 2007


Federal Earmarks For Campaign Cash


A grand jury has subpoenaed a congressional aide in the corruption investigation of the top Republican on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, California Representative Jerry Lewis.


A well-connected 15-term U.S. Congressman, Lewis has been under federal investigation for nearly a year and he has spent close to $1 million on top criminal attorneys while refusing to publicly deny the serious corruption allegations.

The veteran lawmaker is suspected of steering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal earmarks to family and friends in exchange for contributions to his campaign and political action committees. Now federal authorities are probing the connection between Lewis and a former congressman turned lobbyist who personally donated hefty sums to Lewis and got wealthy clients to do the same.

In return, the lobbyist’s (Bill Lowery) clients received federal tax dollars in the form of earmarks approved by the House Appropriations Committee, which Lewis chaired until Republicans lost control of Congress last year. He still maintains quite a bit of power as the highest ranking Republican on the committee.

If Lewis exchanged legislative favors for campaign cash, he will be charged with bribery and honest services fraud. One group that closely tracks crooked politicians has extensive documentation of Lewis’s misdeeds over the years and concludes that he is among the nation’s most corrupt members of Congress.

http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/10/federal_earmarks_for_campaign.html
 
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