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- <text id=92TT0179>
- <title>
- Jan. 27, 1992: American Notes:Scandals
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 27, 1992 Is Bill Clinton For Real?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- SCANDALS
- Slow-Motion Justice
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- <p> Remember the HUD scandal? After spending two years and $4
- million, special prosecutor Arlin Adams last week landed his
- first indictment of a former top department official: Lance
- Wilson, once executive assistant to ex-Secretary of Housing and
- Urban Development Samuel Pierce. Citing Wilson on 24 counts of
- fraud, conspiracy and false statements, a federal grand jury
- charged him with conspiring, after he left HUD for an investment
- firm, to steer $46 million in grants intended for poor urban
- areas to three housing projects developed by his business
- partner, Texan Leonard Briscoe.
- </p>
- <p> Adams has been criticized for moving too slowly in
- investigating charges of influence peddling at HUD in the Reagan
- era. Sources say he is far from handing down decisions on other
- major players at HUD, including Pierce and former executive
- assistant, Deborah Gore Dean. Meanwhile, Dean, who allegedly
- awarded millions in grants to politically well-connected
- Republican consultants, has opened an antiques shop in
- Georgetown to help pay her lawyers.
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