Thursday, March 15, 2018

UPDATE. The HUD furniture scandal


Minor-league stuff, but here we go again with the 'little white lies'.


Quoted in Emails Reveal Ben Carson and Wife Personally Selected $31,000 Dining Table.  (The New Civil Rights Movement.  3/14/2018)
“The secretary did not order a new table,” said Carson, the HUD secretary. “The table was ordered by the career staffers in charge of the building.”


Original 3/7/2018 post, "Setting U.S. housing priorities:  Ben Carson must feel like a winning contestant on The Price is Right", starts here.

SourceHickory Chair

See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set.  (CNN, 2/28/2018)
But it's the Jefferson sideboard, wood top and breakfront deck base (pictured) from the Alexa Hampton Collection that really racked up the charges. The three pieces total $13,579.

Related reading:
Trump Budget Would Increase Homelessness and Hardship in Every State, End Federal Role in Community Development.  (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/27/2017) 
US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut.  (The Guardian, 2/27/2018)




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