ocr: 3) - - HUD PUERTO RICO FIXES. The Wall Street Journal exposed D'. Amato's influence in getting 250 subsidized low-income housing uits for Puerto Rico from the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1987. The senator': S interest in Puerto Rico? His ties with Puert Rican developers who gave $30,000 to his campaign fund on the same day the contract was awarded. Two years later, the NY Times editorialized that the "Senator from Puerto Rico" had been "contemptuously cavalier about his role [in the scandal]. He apparently expects that, as often before, bluster and evasion will put off pesk ...
