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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
I want to thank the Committee for the consideration of Alphonso Jackson as next HUD Secretary," said Sen Elizabeth Dole (R-NC). "He is an outstanding leader and he is continuing the good work he and Secretary Martinez began in helping cities and states across America. I look forward to continuing our work to create greater opportunity for homeownership for all Americans." "Keep the Faith"
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
During that investigation the head of HUD was Alphonso Jackson. He resigned at the end of March. "Secretary Jackson has repeatedly demonstrated that he is not in the position to provide the type of leadership that is necessary during these trying and difficult times," Dodd said in the statement. He said an inspector-general's report recently stated that Jackson had advised staffers to "take political...
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damnum absque injuria (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
JJV has coined an amusing name for Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Alphonso Jackson, Donna Shalala, Richard Holbrooke and James Johnson: the “Subprime Six.” It has a nice ring to it, and just like the Keating 5, all but one are Democrats. Plus, seven being a prime number, it follows that six, being lower, [...]
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USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
The news that former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson was one of the sleaze bags who enriched themselves with sweat heart deals on mortgages from Countrywide Financial makes it a bipartisan scandal and eliminates the slim possibility that any of them will be brought to justice. The ruling political class doesn’t like to bring its members to justice. But if one political party...
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DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and former U.N. ambassador and assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke were part of Countrywide Financial's "V.I.P." program in 2003 and 2004, which waived points, lender fees and company borrowing...
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Kent Conrad , among other politicians (including disgraced former Bush administration HUD secretary Alphonso Jackson), received special treatment from lender Countrywide because of their friendship with embattled CEO Angelo Mozilo: Two influential US senators got “VIP” loans from a subprime mortgage lender saving them tens of thousands of dollars. Democrats, Chris Dodd, Connecticut and Kent Conrad...
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Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Instapundit.com - But it wasn’t just them: “Others who received ‘FOA’ loans include Alphonso Jackson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bush who resigned in April, and Donna Shalala, who was secretary of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration.” You know, government conflict-of-interest rules can be pretty exacting where worker bees are [...]
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Political Wire (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Condé Nast Portfolio exposes two U.S. Senators, two former Cabinet members, and a former ambassador to the United Nations, who got favorable mortgage terms from Countrywide Financial. Among them: Sen. Christopher Dodd, Sen. Kent Conrad, former HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, and former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Jim Johnson, the...
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Market Movers (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Portfolio's Daniel Golden has a potentially explosive story today : the Friends of Angelo, who received discounted VIP Countrywide loans, included a lot of very senior politicians, not just former Obama advisor James Johnson. Among them: Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Alphonso Jackson, Donna Shalala, and Richard Holbrooke. The first reaction: What were these people thinking ? The benefit they got was relatively...
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Blue Girl, Red State (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Homeless? Alphonso Jackson will let you crash on his couch. Disgruntled regulator? Hey, it's all good. Have a free portrait of Jackson to put on your wall. Left holding the bill? Too bad, sucker. You should have left town when Alphonso left town. After all, this happened on his watch: In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling borrowers with mortgages they could not afford, the...
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Blue Girl, Red State (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Over at Talking Points Memo, they've got the goods on Alphonso Jackson, the delusional HUD secretary who was forced to quit recently: ...the Washington Post reports on three minority HUD contractors who in very short spans went from few, if any, HUD contracts to many millions of dollar's worth. The common denominator for all three firms was that they were well-connected in GOP circles or with HUD officials....
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Caveat Emptor (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Here are the blog posts I starred in Google Reader last week. (If you use Google Reader, you can subscribe to my shared items.) The Alphonso Jackson Legacy. Mark Ireland comments on the Washington Post's look at the legacy of HUD chief (and Bush appointee) Alphonso Jackson. While Jackson oversaw the government body in charge of [...]
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Think Progress (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Alphonso Jackson was barely out the door on Friday when Housing and Urban Development (HUD) staffers “began planning to take down that spectacular photo homage to him in the HUD lobby.” By Monday, the 21 large photos of Jackson had been replaced, “under orders of acting Secretary Roy Bernardi, with an equal number of photos [...]
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Blue Girl, Red State (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
For a man who's going to go down as nothing more than a lackey and an ethically-challenged chump, he sure knows how to throw himself a lavish going away party: Last Wednesday, Alphonso Jackson got the send off he deserved, as you can see from the cover of the program for the event obtained by TPMmuckraker. The event, which was held in the main auditorium at HUD, included an overflow crowd of about...
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Facing South (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
On Friday, President Bush announced his nominee to replace outgoing Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, who resigned while under investigation for illegal partisanship and cronyism in the provision of contracts. Jackson was also criticized by low-income housing advocates for pushing a plan to tear down public housing complexes in New Orleans that were barely damaged by Hurricane...
