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- π NATION, Page 65American NotesWASHINGTONSam, Call Capitol Hill!
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- While he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban
- Development, Samuel Pierce was known as Silent Sam. Now, amid
- a burgeoning scandal at HUD, he is courting a new nickname:
- Invisible Sam. The House subcommittee on employment and housing
- would like to question him again, but, says a member, "finding
- him is tough."
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- Investigators contacting Pierce's old Manhattan law firm
- were told he resigned in 1981. They would check his business
- address, but he doesn't have one. The searchers believe he lives
- in New York. Exactly where? Nobody knows. When he is in
- Washington, he stays with a friend. Who? Nobody knows. Why not
- subpoena Pierce? Well, says a subcommittee staffer, "you have
- to have an address." The HUD probe may drag on for months. So
- could the search for Silent Sam.
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