Ben Carson just got hit with federal complaint for wasting $31k taxpayer dollars on one item

[CatWoman]

A senior career official in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charges that after Secretary Ben Carson took over as Secretary she was demoted for refusing to break rules limiting the cost of redecorations and for exposing a $10.8 million budget shortfall caused by “department irregularities,” according to The Guardian.

Helen Foster reported the budget shortfall to HUD’s chief operating officer, David Eagles, but was told last June that “agency leadership was unwilling to report the $10.8 million funding deficit” to the appropriations staff, who handle congressional approval for the funding of the department.

Foster said she warned HUD’s budget staff this would be illegal.

The New York Times reveals that Ben Carson is so oblivious to the events around him that he was unaware that his wife Candy had spent $31,000 to buy a dining room table set for his office and has declared that he has “no intention” of sending it back.

http://washingtonpress.com/2018/02/27/ben-carson-just-got-hit-federal-complaint-wasting-31k-taxpayer-dollars-one-item/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/hud-ben-carson-office-redecoration-trump-appointee

[Blue_true]

1. Imagine what the right would have done if an Obama official had done sonething

even remotely close?

[CatWoman]

2. it's clear the only thing this criminal cabal wanted to do all along

is to rip off the government and loot the treasury as much as possible.

they should ALL be made to reimburse the govt. All of them.

[Ohiogal]

3. OMG they would have gone ballistic

Calling for prison, impeachment, or worse!

But it's okay when a Repuke does it ...<sarc>

[Cha]

4. ben carson.. wasting tax payers' hard earned

money.. on his own frivolous, luxury table.. Shocking.



And, concerns were being raised about Carson using his position for private gain..

Ben Carson’s family ethics drama, explained

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/3/16967628/ben-carson-ethics-hud-son-baltimore

Another shocker

[rsdsharp]

5. I have two questions.

1. Why does the HUD secretary need a dining room table set in his office?

2. What kind of a dining set costs $31,000? All the furniture in my house is probably worth about $50,000.

[Rollo]

7. Maybe he wants to have his fake news and eat it too?

[Rollo]

6. Maybe Ben thought he was buying an operating table?

Who knows, maybe Trump has asked him to do some corrective brain surgery to remove all the accumulated bullshit in The Donald's noggin?

If so, it would be well worth the $$$. Even if the operation was unsuccessful...

[lindysalsagal]

8. Who knew there were this many living sociopaths?

[VOX]

9. A guy who has himself hanging with Jesus in a painting deserves the BEST!

I mean, if you’re gonna take a shot at staging a Last Supper II, only the best that money can buy will do.

It’s a little-known fact that Jesus himself owned a big chunk of the Egyptian grain-storage pyramid scheme. He made out like a bandit, and you can be wealthy and have magic Jesus, too— just like DOCTOR Carson! Dream big!