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Senior HUD Official Resigns Amidst Investigation
Federal investigators are bearing down on Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson for setting up his buddies with contracts and then telling Congress that he didn't "touch contracts."
One contract in particular that prosecutors are scrutinizing involves Jackson's friend, Atlanta lawyer Michael Hollis, who was paid approximately $1 million for managing the Virgin Islands Housing Authority, the National Journal reported last week, adding: "Before landing at the authority, some sources said, Hollis had no experience in running a public housing agency." When asked about the contract, Hollis told National Journal that "he had negotiated his contract with Orlando Cabrera, a senior HUD official, and 'people on his procurement staff.'" A grand jury has issued a subpoena for documents relating to Hollis' contract.
Well, perhaps it's a coincidence, but Cabrera, the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, announced that he would resign about a week before that National Journal piece came out. The resignation would be effective January 4th.
Why is he resigning? Cabrera told The Miami Herald, "I've had a wonderful experience these last few years, and I just want to take a few months to spend time with my wife and kids.... I know it sounds like the standard Potomac line, but it's not." He has "no firm career plans," the paper reports. The paper didn't ask him about the investigation, but you gotta wonder.
Ed. Note: Thanks to TPM Reader BK for the tip.
Comments (62)
jeffgee wrote on November 21, 2007 6:19 PM:The only regret at the White House is that there aren't more loyal Bushies in the investigators' office.
global citizen wrote on November 21, 2007 6:25 PM:Jackson didn't 'touch contracts'. Perhaps he was wearing gloves.
BrewhouseBob wrote on November 21, 2007 6:31 PM:I'd like to think that these investigations will not stop simply because the target has resigned. I have never in my life seen so many individuals from a single administration (and a single Congress) under investigation. This must be the most corrupt group of politicians in the past 50 years. And when it comes to war-related graft and profiteering, I'm afraid we've only scratched the surface so far.
Anonymous wrote on November 21, 2007 7:10 PM:You begin to wonder if all these people, who want to spend more time with the family, are doing so before they haul them off to jail.
William Stricklin wrote on November 21, 2007 7:33 PM:Brew, I'm afraid you're right. If we only knew the full extent of the looting of both the Iraqi and American Treasuries, we would run shreiking through the streets.
TheraP wrote on November 21, 2007 7:42 PM:Justice demands Impeachment!
Mr. Stricklin:
If I may modify your comment:
The Constitution demands Impeachment.
Justice demands Indictment, Trial, and Incarceration.
greylox wrote on November 21, 2007 8:08 PM:**TheraP, you have very succinctly stated what needs be.
Joseph wrote on November 21, 2007 8:21 PM:Once again, everybody that was going to bail for "wife and family" was supposed to do this before Labor Day of this year. That's what Josh Bolten said. Why are the rats continuing to desert?
Dan wrote on November 21, 2007 8:33 PM:Impeach a King and Emperor? Are you nuts? You can't even impeach Diebold. The economy is collapsing and the ditto heads keep mouthing, "solid economy, solid economy, illegal immigration, wall, wall, wall"! How you going to remove an Emperor?
Helen Rainier wrote on November 21, 2007 8:47 PM:Funniest Cabrera line: "I've had a wonderful experience these last few years, and I just want to take a few months to spend time with my wife and kids.... I know it sounds like the standard Potomac line, but it's not."
Gee, if it sounds like that "standard Potomac line" isn't that a good indication that it sounds like it because it is the standard line?
DUH!
IconDaemon wrote on November 21, 2007 9:31 PM:TheraP writes: "Justice demands Indictment, Trial, and Incarceration."
These days, all Justice needs is vengance and retribution to Biblical standards. Screw the facts - if G-d is on your side you can do no wrong: evil-doers must be punished.
+- IconDaemon -+
ky wrote on November 21, 2007 9:39 PM:A great cheer went up in our Housing Authority when we heard the news on Monday. He defines the word "incompetent".
rose wrote on November 21, 2007 10:17 PM:ky wrote: "He (Cabrera) defines incompetent"... it can also be stated that the entire administration defines "incompetent".
We will all be cheering when the entire pack of incompetent, corrupt, "evil-doers" are out of office.
Brad Eleven wrote on November 21, 2007 10:28 PM:I'm old enough to remember my mother hating Nixon because the Watergate hearings pre-empted daytime soaps. While C-SPAN is fantastic for bringing us coverage of everything, it probably means that the major networks won't do the same after the tipping point, when the Congress subpoenas everyone.
It is my opinion that the Bush administration will be found to have been doing something so profoundly heinous as to alienate even the True Believers, leaving only the Dead Enders and the co-conspirators on the defensive end.
For quite some time, I feared that Bush would pull a Reagan--and I'm sure that he and his advisers thought the same. The insulation is wearing thin, and the biscuit wheels on the gravy train are wobbling ever faster.
This camel has a pretty strong back, but it's bowed about as low as it'll go.
east village wrote on November 21, 2007 10:30 PM:all this AND he's a gold glove winning shortstop. who knew?
FROM MSNBC.com"
Harold Fairweather wrote on November 21, 2007 10:57 PM:...we got this week’s big deal — Gold Glove-winning shortstop Orlando Cabrera to the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Jon Garland.
Republicans aren't stupid -- they'll dump the current corrupt moron as he becomes entirely useless, and bring in a "new face" as a savior to clean up -- probably that sleazeball Juiliani, or that nasty sleazeball Romney.
The US citizens are stupid enough to be fooled by continual baiting and switching, from one nasty sleazeball to another -- and if they can't get enough votes, they can always rig the voting machines some more.
The Democrats are too cowardly and corrupt to stand up to the Republicans anyway.
moondancer wrote on November 22, 2007 12:19 AM:The "list" of bushco liars and criminals has now crossed over to the "book". There is still time for volumes.
Richard Cotter wrote on November 22, 2007 12:29 AM:Folks what more can I say???
The GOP has always been the party of responsible checks and balances....
$10,000 checks and
$1,000,000 balances
Need I say more....
Sully18 wrote on November 22, 2007 12:38 AM:A couple of weeks ago there was a report that talked about looking into Social Security to make sure that there was"real money" to fund the baby boomers retirement.My first thought,"I wonder how much the Bush gang has absconded with," but then I dismissed thinking that even those cretins couldn`t be that crooked.But why would someone ask a question like that?
Randall wrote on November 22, 2007 1:13 AM:My introduction to Alphonso Jackson was during the mid 1980s when he was divorcing his wife, Bernie, with whom I worked at St. Louis University.
Alphonso was then, and continues to be, woman-abusing, a self-loathing African-American in the mold of Clarence Thomas... all praying to be whiter, and sexually abusing every woman in their reach.
In St. Louis, you had Alphonos Jackson and Roy Cheatham (equally abusive of women) talking MLK and acting like Tom Crow, and sucking up to the white Republican power structure. How sad.
gcs wrote on November 22, 2007 1:53 AM:This clown looks like he's got a V-E-R-Y wide stance. So, gotta go tubby. Probably to spend more time with his non-existent family.
TJ wrote on November 22, 2007 6:58 AM:zzzzzz..... bush has nothing to worry about, at least while he's in that big house.
Lucky for the bush that the dems dont go after him, like the fascists went after his predecessor.
wc wrote on November 22, 2007 9:26 AM:another criminally incompetent, Gay Old Pedofile bites the dust...next criminally incompetent, Gay Old Pedofile please...
JanM wrote on November 22, 2007 9:50 AM:Christ, another butter-faced baby criminal. Rove model, hair by Hagee.
E Z Rider wrote on November 22, 2007 10:00 AM:And another one bites the dust.
Doncha jest luv it.
The Conservative Deflator wrote on November 22, 2007 10:30 AM:TheraP nailed it. How can Pelosi and Reid sit on their hands and do nothing? Justice demands that the Democrats impeach both Cheney and Bush, even if it costs them the White House in 2008.
spamonwry wrote on November 22, 2007 10:47 AM:Clearly another candidate for the pen. Unfortunately, it's likely to be Bush's Pardon Pen rather than the other pen, the Federal Penitentiary which is what just about every high-level Bush administration (is there another word to better describe the disaster which has been intentionally wrought on the American people? "Administration" isn't appropriate) criminals.
As the saying goes, They came to Washington to "do good, and they've done right well."
buckheaddad wrote on November 22, 2007 10:55 AM:What's Georgie boy going to do?
ISSUE A BLANKET PARDON TO EVERYONE EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS ADMINISTRATION?????????????????????????
Don't expect anything different from what the Clinton "woman" would do. She's cute of the same cloth, as are the whole pack of politicians, preachers, perverts in Washington.
bureaubasher wrote on November 22, 2007 11:26 AM:Those of us who regularly work with HUD and HUD programs are incapable of being surprised by the latest non-revelations about corruption in HUD contracting. We've known about these practices at HUD for a long time. But, like a lot of the other corruption in the current administration, it's not the behavior that's abrupt departure from the past, it's the arrogantly blatant way they practice it. They don't even make a serious effort to hide the corruption and the people they appoint makes it obvious what the agenda it is and how little they care about anything that falls outside of it.
James B. wrote on November 22, 2007 11:55 AM:It's time to drain the swamp of these leaches. How much longer are the American People going going to put up with this crap?
chabuka wrote on November 22, 2007 12:05 PM:Where are the Billions that went missing from HUD? That just went away as did the 3.2 Trillion that went missing from the Pentagon. And how much more have these Criminals stolen that we haven't found out about yet?
We should fill the lamp post around the Capital with ropes and nooses.
And then fill them all.
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN...!
wagonjak wrote on November 22, 2007 2:27 PM:Look at this fat, smug, smirking face and then go down the thread and look at Van Spakovsky's face...
There's a common thread among the visages of loyal BushBots...they're all overweight, weak-looking, and smugly self-satisfied...from Carl Rove through Brownie and all the way down, they all have the same dough-boy look (as do most of the right-wing bloggers!)
Of course, they should be satisfied, they've managed to infiltrate all levels of the government with their mismanagement and incompetence, and are well on the way to bringing this once-great country to its knees,,,
Great job guys...may you all rot in Hell forever when you die-sooner then later too!
Bert wrote on November 23, 2007 4:08 AM:Whaaaaat??!??!?!!? ANOTHER government
jimijazz wrote on November 23, 2007 9:07 AM:stooge hooking up his buddies and
cramming money in his pockets, and
it has to do with REAL ESTATE!?!?!?!?!
The Shock! The Awe! The horror...the
horror...ROTF
Another Bush bimbo bites the dust.
Jimi C wrote on November 24, 2007 3:36 PM:I have not read one article about HUD that stated any facts about corruption. These are allegations. Recommending competent people to do a job only seems to be an outrageous crime when a minority holds a position of power. Nothing was getting done in New Orleans and HUD Secretary Jackson recommended sending a person with construction experience to New Orleans. Because of this African American's expertise and effort, 2000 public housing units were opened in 18 months, with families moving back home. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has gone from last in minority( women, blacks and Hispanics ) contracting to first among all federal departments. Look beyond the malcontents cries of corruption and figure out the truth.
Jimi C wrote on November 24, 2007 3:37 PM:I have not read one article about HUD that stated any facts about corruption. These are allegations. Recommending competent people to do a job only seems to be an outrageous crime when a minority holds a position of power. Nothing was getting done in New Orleans and HUD Secretary Jackson recommended sending a person with construction experience to New Orleans. Because of this African American's expertise and effort, 2000 public housing units were opened in 18 months, with families moving back home. The Department of Housing and Urban Development has gone from last in minority( women, blacks and Hispanics ) contracting to first among all federal departments. Look beyond the malcontents cries of corruption and figure out the truth.
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