Gregory Meeks

Dem Rep Meeks Failed To Report $50k In Loans

Justin Elliott | June 21, 2010, 10:57AM

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) did not report on his personal financial disclosures over $50,000 in loans from a New York businessman that he used to pay for a large home in the Jamaica section of Queens, the Daily News reports.

Meeks, who has been on TPMmuckraker's radar recently because of a federal probe into his Hurricane Katrina charity, told the News that the loans, for $40,000 in 2007, and $15,000 in 2008, were not reported because of an "oversight."

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