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Audit: NC housing agency spent TARP money on parties, gifts (& employee bonuses)
WRAL ^ | 8/30/17 | Matthew Burns, Kathryn Brown

Posted on 08/30/2017 5:06:29 PM PDT by Libloather

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Housing Finance Agency misused federal money meant to help homeowners rework their mortgages after the recession, according to a government watchdog.

The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly known as TARP, found more than $3 million in wasteful spending from the program's "Hardest Hit Fund" in housing agencies nationwide, including more than $107,000 in North Carolina, officials said.

The N.C. Housing Finance Agency disputes the findings but has already begun paying the money back, executive director Scott Farmer said Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; fraud; gifts; nc; northcarolina; party; tarp
"Congress did not authorize TARP dollars for barbeques, steak and seafood dinners, gift cards, flowers, gym memberships, employee bonuses, litigation, celebrations, cars and other unnecessary expenses of state housing agencies," Special Inspector General Christy Goldsmith Romero said in a statement.

Oh, I'm pretty sure it's allowed somewhere in the fine print. Otherwise, they wouldn't have done it!

1 posted on 08/30/2017 5:06:30 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Government handout recipient privilege.


2 posted on 08/30/2017 5:11:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Libloather

How are they “paying it back?” More tax money?


3 posted on 08/30/2017 5:14:19 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Libloather

Cue Claude Raines


4 posted on 08/30/2017 5:14:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Libloather

5 posted on 08/30/2017 5:15:39 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Libloather

I was outraged when the TARP was up for debate to begin with for this very reason. There was no oversight or restrictions on how this money was used. It was just a blank check, because “we have to do something”.


6 posted on 08/30/2017 5:15:55 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: \/\/ayne

Yeah, really, whose money goes to “paying it back”?? Oh, right, taxpayers again! Well maybe state and local vs. federal, but it’s usually the public getting reamed by the bastards.


7 posted on 08/30/2017 5:17:02 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Libloather

Well, it begins!

Only $600 billion of waste yet to be found!

As Barky said, “I guess that there were not that many shovel ready jobs.”

Almost a trillion down the tubes. And now Trump wants another trillion!


8 posted on 08/30/2017 5:17:05 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Libloather

So...go after all these criminals ! Is accountability so “then”?


9 posted on 08/30/2017 5:28:38 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Libloather

Don’t hold your breath waiting for judicial reckoning. The current governor was the attorney general while this was going on.


10 posted on 08/30/2017 5:38:53 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: Libloather

TARP was supposed to be supervised. It was the last quarter of the GWB Admin. The Dems were in control of the House and Senate. The Stimulus, under the Obama Admin had absolutely NO OVERSIGHT. TARP finds were supposed to be paid back! Stimulus was nearly a trillion dollars of FREE MONEY TO OBAMA SUPPORTERS. All on the taxpayer ‘dime’. MR TRUMP, DRAIN THE SEWER!


11 posted on 08/30/2017 5:40:01 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Libloather

I think IGs should be able to indict public employees with mandatory prosecution required by DAs.


12 posted on 08/30/2017 5:42:03 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Libloather

13 posted on 08/30/2017 5:45:03 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Libloather
Like George Jefferson, "movin' on up …"
 
14 posted on 08/30/2017 5:45:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: All
EXCERPT---FOURTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS Behind The Real Size of the Bailout; A guide to the abbreviations, acronyms, and obscure programs that make up the $14 trillion federal bailout of Wall Street
SOURCE motherjones.com --- Mon Dec. 21, 2009 12:23 PM PST

The price tag for the Wall Street bailout is popularly put at $787 billion—---the actual size of TARP--the Troubled Assets Relief Program. But TARP is just the best known program in an array of more than 30 overseen by Treasury Department and Federal Reserve that have paid out or put aside untraceable money to bail out financial firms and inject money into the markets.

To get a sense of the size of the real $14 trillion bailout, see MJ chart at web site. A guide to the pieces of the puzzle includes massive untraceable Treasury Department bailout programs.

Money Market Mutual Fund: In September 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel announced that it would insure the holdings of publicly offered money market mutual funds. According to the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), these guarantees could have potentially cost the federal government more than $3 trillion [PDF].

Public-Private Investment Fund: This joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program bought toxic assets from banks and brokerages—as much as $5 billion of assets per firm. According to SIGTARP, the government's potential exposure from the PPIF is between $500 million and $1 trillion [PDF].

TARP: As part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel made loans to or investments more than 750 banks and financial institutions. $650 billion has been paid out (not including HAMP; see below). As of December 21, 2009, $117.5 billion of that has been repaid.

Government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) stock purchase: The Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel bought $200 million in preferred stock from Fannie Mae and another $200 million from Freddie Mac [PDF] to show that they "will remain viable entities critical to the functioning of the housing and mortgage markets."

GSE mortgage-backed securities purchase: Under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the Treasury controlled by Obama/Emanuel may buy mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. According to SIGTARP, these purchases could cost as much as $314 billion ---SNIP---.

LONG READ---go to web site to read more and checkout the shocking financial charts.

SOURCE http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/12/behind-real-size-bailout

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15 posted on 08/30/2017 6:18:22 PM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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Pres Trump needs to ask Treasury officials what exactly Rahm Emanuel and Obama were doing there.

PAUSE TO REFLECT--- As taxpayers were being gulled by the TARP fraud, Obama had tight control of Treasury and spent trillions of tax dollars. Obama calculatedly placed his then-COS Rahm Emanuel in a dual role.......in the WH and at Treasury. Obama had a stranglehold on Treasury via COS Rahm Emanuel's dual role

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE Soon as they occupied the WH, Obama and the Chi/cons (a) took control of the US Census; Obama placed his COS Rahm Emanuel in control of the US Dept of the Treasury (including the conservative-suppressing IRS). Read on.

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THE SMOKING GUN---WSJ REPORT--On Jan 20, 2009 Timothy Geithner was appointed Obama's Secy of the Treasury. But within three weeks, the Obama White House tightened its grip on Treasury. Obama put his COS, Rahm Emanuel, in charge of Treasury---Rahm Emanuel's dual role was an unusual move.

When he got to Treasury, WH COS Rahm Emanuel was so involved in the inner workings that the phrase "Rahm wants it" had become an unofficial mantra among subservient govt staffers, prostrate in obeisance, scurrying to accede to Rahm's wishes, according to Treasury government officials. Reported by WSJ / 05/31/09

More here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124113406528875137.html

16 posted on 08/30/2017 6:19:52 PM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: BenLurkin

And Gomer Pyle.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 7:09:34 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Noob1999
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18 posted on 08/31/2017 6:53:45 PM PDT by TomServo
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