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- From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Subject: USD HUD, NYCHA & CRIME
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- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
-
- First Shooting of the Weekend at the Notorious Queensbridge Houses
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- Friday afternoon September 11, 1992 there was another shooting at
- Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, Queens.
-
- According to usually well informed sources the victim was a reputed
- drug dealer.
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- The shooter is alleged to have thrown the gun into a trash can as he
- ran into a building. Then the perp changed clothes and walked back
- out the building right past the New York City Housing Authority
- Police who were looking for him.
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- Police sources will only admit that a gun was recovered and disclaim
- any knowledge of the perp walking past them.
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- Some tenants are waiting to see if there will be any announcement
- from Mayor Dinkins saying that he will be sending the shooting victim
- a get well card.
-
- On Wednesday August 26 a murder victim was found sprawled in a fifth
- floor hallway at Queensbridge Houses with three bullet holes in his
- head.
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- Queensbridge Houses tenants have voted for the Fruit of Islam as a
- paid security force. The New York City Housing Authority was
- considering this until, the ADL of B'nai B'rith sent out letters of
- opposition to the New York City Housing Authority and to Jack Kemp,
- Secretary of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in
- Washington. Now HUD and the NYC HA refuse to discuss this any further
- and the carnage continues.
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- Tenants recall that in 1989 Bush had said in an acceptance speech "I
- want a drug-free America. ... My administration will be telling the
- dealers, 'Whatever we have to do, we'll do, but your day is over.
- You're history'" Tenants say "Enough Bush-it."
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- Tenants wonder what is happening to the millions of dollars
- reportedly being sent by HUD to the NYC HA earmarked for crime
- fighting in the projects.
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- Tenants feel that HUD winks as money given to the NYC HA is misused.
- HUD employee whistleblowers say "while advising President Bush on the
- Federal Budget, Secretary Kemp mismanages his own." "DIGEST,
- INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT TO CONGRESS NUMBER 27", is a scathing
- indictment of HUD. The digest states "Areas of fraud and
- mismanagement in Multifamily Housing Programs include contracting
- improprieties, embezzlement, bribery, and extortion by HUD employees,
- local officials .... six organized crime figures who were indicted
- after they received $23 million in HUD-funded contracts from the New
- York City Housing Authority using a debarred contractor who set up a
- shell company to obtain contracts."
-
- What the digest doesn't mention, but is reported in the Thursday
- March 5, 1992 NY Post on page 4 is that HUD directed the New York
- City Housing Authority to give work to an organized crime connected
- firm which the NYC HA had not intended to give. Obviously HUD doesn't
- just look the other way at NYC HA misuse of money, but orchestrates
- the misuse. Any proper investigation of the NYC HA would implicate
- HUD itself.
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- Perhaps if there was better accounting of money sent to the NYC HA
- for crime fighting in the projects, the tenants wouldn't be seeking
- outside security assistance.
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