AP:
The FBI is examining the ties between Housing Secretary Alphonso Jackson and a friend who was paid $392,000 by Jackson's department as a construction manager in New Orleans, three federal law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Jackson's friend got the job after the HUD secretary asked a staff member to pass along his name to the Housing Authority of New Orleans, a spokesman for Jackson said in a statement.
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What is so unusual? this is routine business practice for Repugs....
Dems need to try harder to match their corruption level.
Of course, thanks to bushco, they have a ready excuse... but, but Bush....!
Works everytime for the rethugs, why not give it a try.
Suprise Suprise !!!! Bushie in the hot seat. Has ther ever been a group of more corrupt appointees? And the Buck stops where???? why the hell can't we kick this group out? Because Pelosi and Reid have conveniently taken it of our constitutional rights table- Who are they really working for- because it sure as sh*t ain't US?
"The White House said President Bush supports Jackson"
As soon as I read that, I thought:
Oh!Oh!Goodbye Jackson
History is going to condemn all of us.
Future generations will remember the Republicans as corrupt,murderous swine,and the rest of us as enablers.
I second that. TIme for the baby-boomers to get pushed out of power. As a whole the baby-boomer generation has been quite awful for this country when it comes to politics and a few other things.
I think if there is ever a true and accurate accounting of all the money this administration spent,we will find that MOST of it ended up in the pockets of a very small bunch of Bush and Cheney's "friends"!
Should keep the next administration's Attorney General quite busy.
Well, we see where the New Orleans reconstruction money is going.
Into the pocket of a friend of the administration.
Wonder if this will upset the trollz as much as the $90 thousand in Jefferson's freezer?
Upset them? Hell no, they will brag about how their ass-bag got more money out of the taxpayers than the other ass-bag. Oneupmanship at its peak.
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First Posted: 10- 4-07 09:30 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM