{"id":196165,"date":"2008-05-20T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/bushs-evil-minionstrade-at-hud-ignored-allegations-of-corruption\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:41:00","slug":"bushs-evil-minionstrade-at-hud-ignored-allegations-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/20\/bushs-evil-minionstrade-at-hud-ignored-allegations-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Evil Minions&#038;trade at HUD Ignored Allegations of Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img247.imageshack.us\/img247\/6808\/casablanca36lt5.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Captain Renault<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">: I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Croupier<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">: Your winnings, sir.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Captain Renault<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that when career staffers at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development noticed that contracts were going to unqualified, but politically connected, contractors, in what appeared to be a highly irregular process <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/17\/AR2008051702336.html?nav=rss_politics\">senior management ignored their warnings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Who could imagine that HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> would let out contracts on the basis of politics&#8230;.Oh wait&#8230;.he said this on tape in a speech&#8230;.Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Renault: I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here![a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]Croupier: Your winnings, sir.Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much. It appears that when career staffers at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development noticed that contracts were going to unqualified, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,970,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}