Guardian: Secretive "religious" charity run by top HUD officials raises quesions

[Tanuki]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/johnson-joy-naved-jafry-housing-department-religious-charity

"One of the top officials in Donald Trump’s housing department runs an opaque religious charity with a colleague who resigned from the administration when the Guardian found he was accused of fraud and exaggerated his biography.

US housing department adviser quits amid questions of fraud and inflated biography

Johnson Joy, the chief information officer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud), is part of a Christian not-for-profit in Texas with Naved Jafry, who quit as a Hud adviser after inquiries about his professional history.

Until this week the group, GJH Global Ministries, invited donations on its website. But it was not clear what work the group did and its mission statements and other information appeared to be copied from those of major churches. GJH was formed in 2014 but Stephen Austin, one of its directors, said in a brief interview: “We literally did nothing.”
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Before being locked to visitors, one page of GJH’s site showed a photograph of Joy addressing a crowd of people holding Trump campaign placards and wearing red “Make America great again” hats. Another showed Joy posing with Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas. Not-for-profit organisations are barred under federal law from endorsing political candidates."... (more)

[MineralMan]

1. Dominionists have moved into the Trump Administration

like ninjas. DeVos? Pence? Ben Carson? Many others. If you haven't noticed, you should. If this doesn't frighten you, look into it.

[Mc Mike]

2. I remember a portrait our HUD sec has in his home, of him and Jesus smiling together. nt.

[procon]

3. This has Ben Carson's fingerprints all over it. nt