Is this FAKE news?
I just don’t recall Ben Carson making any claim to uncovering HUD Fraud.
1) The ERRORS EXISTED. That cannot be downplayed.
2) The title should have been this to be more accurate: “It was not Ben Carson who discovered HUD errors”
The headline if read by a careless reader, would give the impression that there were no HUD errors at all. There seems to be a sly attempt to downplay the severity of this accounting scandal.
Officials at HUD fixed $3.4 billion in errors from its 2015 books and $516.4 billion in errors from its 2016 books after the IG in December was unable to issue an opinion on either year's financial statements and highlighted 11 material weaknesses, seven significant deficiencies and five instances of failure to comply with laws and regulations.These same problems have been reported for three straight years by the IG.
After Carson released the audit, a number of rightie bloggers credited Carson.
MSM SILENT: Ben Carson Finds $500 BILLION in Fraud - Gateway Pundit (Hoft)
Ben Carson Uncovers Massive Fraud at HUD...It's Bad - The Washington Feed
WOW: With Ben Carson At HUD, Billions Of Obama Fraud Uncovered - American Lookout
The OP is three-weeks old news too. Tempest in a teapot. Righties fake news too, duh.
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Dr. Ben Carson Finds Half TRILLION Dollars in Errors While Auditing Obama’s Housing Agency
hannity.com ^ | 4/6/2017 | unknown / FR Posted by rktman
Dr. Ben Carson has discovered over $500 billion (that's with a 'B') in errors and accounting mistakes during his audit of the Obama administration’s Housing and Urban Development budget. One of Dr. Carson’s first orders after being confirmed as the Secretary of HUD was a thorough audit of the agency, which has been accused of fraud and over-budgeted projects throughout the entire Obama administration. What did the auditors find? Over $520 billion in budgetary mistakes and clerical errors. (Excerpt) Read more at hannity.com ...
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The spin was errors discoversed shortly after Carson took over. I remember reading it and lots og winning posts were made. I don recall Carson making that claim for himself.
Dr. Carson made it Public. Obviously the Obama Administration chose to keep it a secret.
You don’t find a half Trillion Dollar Accounting error one week after walking through the door and taking over the place.
Regardless of when the report was issued, that amount of error cannot stand. What corrective action has been forthcoming? What employees are responsible - names, please? How can we be assured it never happens again? Obama screw-ups are all over the place but I see no heads roll, no corrective action - no details. Call a spade a spade, and don’t wait a year to get the job done.