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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri May 17, 2019, 03:51 PM May 2019

HUD's Ben Carson broke law with furniture order, GAO says

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson broke the law when he failed to report an order for a $31,561 dining room table set for his office as well as the installation of an $8,000 dishwasher in the office kitchen, the Government Accountability Office found in a report published Thursday.

Agencies are required to notify Congress of expenditures over $5,000 to furnish an executive’s office.

Carson canceled the table order after it surfaced in news reports in early 2018, and he appeared to blame the fiasco on his wife, Candy, in congressional testimony. HUD spokespeople offered conflicting accounts of what Carson knew about the order.

Congressional appropriators requested the GAO investigation.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/16/ben-carson-table-gao-1329839

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HUD's Ben Carson broke law with furniture order, GAO says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 OP
but it was his WIFE's fault! Maine-i-acs May 2019 #1

Maine-i-acs

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1. but it was his WIFE's fault!
Fri May 17, 2019, 04:50 PM
May 2019

he left the room and the next thing he knew she had bought some expensive stuff! my heavens! clutch the pearls Ben!
At least that's what he said in his testimony.
More subpoenas are warranted .. for Mr. and Mrs. Carson.

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