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- From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Subject: HUD/NYC HA SCANDALS
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:13:53 GMT
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- CONTACTS:
- Ray Normandeau 718 392-1267, Queensbridge Tenant Council Secretary
- Aureo Cardona of the National Hispanic Housing Council 202-872-1717
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- Jack Kemp of HUD Named in MIA/POW Scam Investigation
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- Violet Hamilton's Indictment A Travesty
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- To Silence Someone Who Was Too Vocal
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- Bartholomew Borrielo Buddy Bumped
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- Hispanic Group Charges Housing and Urban Development Racism
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- According to a December 3, 1992 story from UPI, HUD's Jack Kemp may
- be involved with a scam to raise funds for perhaps non-existent POW's
- and MIA's. This all came out thru the Senate Select Committee on
- POW/MIA Affairs.
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- A fund raising firm sent out a copy of a letter stating "Please
- excuse the handwriting,... I am writing at a makeshift desk on the
- deck,... Sea is tossing and rolling." Letter was really written in a
- nice dry office in the USA. The boat which was supposed to be out at
- sea had not left port for years.
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- This letter was written for retired Air Force Col. Jack Bailey.
- Bailey stated that he was advised by Jack Kemp. In these scams, of
- the $15.6 million collected as much as 90 percent, went to fees and
- other fund raising costs.
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- HUD has promised to comment on the allegations by December 10, 1992.
- The full text of the UPI feed was sent to HUD as well as posted in an
- open letter to HUD on the Normandeau Newswire 212-274-8110,
- (Newsgroup # 5, 44 modem only phone lines). Kemp had replaced the
- publicly disgraced Sam Pierce.
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- The National Hispanic Housing Council has charged racism at the US
- Department of Housing and Urban Development and as a remedy " ... to
- help reverse the racism against Hispanics that has existed at HUD for
- decades." has recommend NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero to
- replace current HUD head Jack Kemp. The Council press release is
- available on the Normandeau Newswire 212-274-8110.
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- NYC HA Chairperson Sally Hernandez-Pinero replaced disgraced NYC HA
- Chair Laura Blackburne who had allegedly attempted to blackmail NYC
- HA Tenant Advisory Chair Violet Hamilton into quitting her post.
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- Violet Hamilton was recently indicted for alleged embezzlement. Some
- news reports stated that Violet Hamilton was a NYC HA employee. That
- is not true; her position was entirely voluntary. She got no pay
- what-so-ever for THREE YEARS. As a perk of her "job" she was to be
- supplied with an automobile. According to information from usually
- accurate sources, the automobile was given to an associate of Laura
- Blackburne. The NYC HA then told Violet Hamilton to use a car service
- that the NYC HA would pay for. All car service vouchers were approved
- by the NYCHA before they were paid. The source alleges that Violet
- Hamilton had frequently complained to the NYCHA about the cost of the
- car service, but the NYCHA car had already been given away! Many
- papers that Violet Hamilton would have liked to review for her
- defense were reportedly stolen during a midnite office burglary
- orchestrated by NYC HA Inspector General Gene Lopez. Lopez had
- replaced the disgraced Jesse Mercado who had allegedly tipped off the
- subjects of undercover investigations. To add to dirty tricks,
- Hamilton was never informed about a Grand Jury prior to indictment.
- Friends of Hamilton are planning a legal-defense meeting this
- weekend.
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- Violet Hamilton was a threat to the New York City Housing Authority
- as she talked too much about things that she shouldn't. The NYC HA is
- so frightened of people who might make too much noise if elected to
- tenant organization office that Edwin Kaufman of the NYC HA is now in
- a controversy involving a phony election that the NYS Courts called a
- sham.
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- Queensbridge Houses news was on a recent Long Island City Journal
- front page. Covered was the late November indoor murder and the
- outdoor machine gun battle. between possible drug war-lords. A cop
- had gotten sandwiched between factions.
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- Our Town recently mentioned that Salvatore Sparacino was killed by
- machine gun fire in Brooklyn. Sparacino was a friend of Bartholomew
- Borrielo. Bartholomew Borrielo was chauffeur/bodyguard to John Gotti.
- John Gotti is a reputed organized crime figure and salesman for Arc
- Plumbing at Queensbridge Houses. Bartholomew Borrielo ceased to be in
- Gotti's employ when Borrielo was shot to death in April of 1991.
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- Some Queensbridge Houses tenants have speculated that Borrielo was
- shot because he may have been planing to testify for the prosecution
- at Gotti's trial.
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