Ben Carson Drains The Swamp — Look Who He Just Exposed For Stealing $336,000 Of Taxpayer Funds
Secretary Ben Carson of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development is proving to be more than just the man of integrity that we
knew him to be. He is also turning out to be something of an investigator,
rooting out corruption that has cost Americans enormous sums of money.
While his primary responsibility might not be
forensic accounting and personally conducting audits, he is responsible for the
integrity of his department. And he is doing an outstanding job.
On the heels of other revelations of corruption that
went on prior to his arrival as head of HUD, Dr. Carson has exposed a state HUD
director who has embezzled government funds for personal use. This would be
Lorena Loren, HUD director in Michigan who is now accused of stealing $336,000
of taxpayer funds and using those funds to go on a personal shopping
extravaganza.
“A high-ranking public housing official charged with
providing government-subsidized homes to the poor stole hundreds of thousands
of dollars from the agency and used it to buy furniture, alcohol, clothes,
makeup and other personal items. The crooked public official scammed the
government for years undetected which may seem unbelievable though not when it
comes to the agency she worked for, a bastion of corruption known as Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).”
While all theft is rightly considered criminal, there
is something especially despicable about stealing funds that are intended to
help the poor. This is just what Judaical Watch has reported that has happened
in a local branch of HUD.
“[A]n executive director at one of those branches in
Michigan gets busted for embezzling $336,000. Her name is Lorena Loren and for
years she served as the executive director of the St. Clair Housing Commission,
which administers a local Section 8 housing program in southeast Michigan.
Section 8 is the federal government’s major program for assisting very
low-income families, the elderly and the disabled to afford decent, safe and
sanitary housing in the private market.
The program is
administered locally by Public Housing Agencies (PHA) like the St. Clair
Housing Commission so the cash comes from the feds though there appears to be
no oversight. The idea is to subsidize housing costs, via vouchers, so the poor
can live in privately owned, single-family homes, townhouses or apartments they
otherwise couldn’t afford.”
While this has been going on nation-wide for decades,
it’s about to stop.
“Clearly, this is part of a much broader epidemic at
HUD. A Michigan-area newspaper editorial blasts the agency for failing to
protect taxpayer dollars and low-income families that need help.”
The good news for everyone but the fraudsters is that
Secretary Ben Carson is cleaning house
“Hopefully President Trump’s new HUD secretary, Ben
Carson, will clean some house at the fraud-infested agency. We don’t’ need a
newspaper editorial to tell us that ‘HUD clearly has a gap in its fiduciary
responsibility.’”
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