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Obama and Holder Tied To The Pigford Scandal “ Among those influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times reports. As president, Obama continued to support payouts for new groups of claimants while abandoning a review process that had been used to fight fraud. The aim was “buying the support” of minorities, according to the Times, while middlemen created a “cottage industry” in defrauding the government. This is the New York Times, now reporting this. Good thing they didn’t tell its readers about this before the election!  They might have gotten some funny ideas about holding Barack Obama accountable. The deal, several current and former government officials said, was fashioned in White House meetings despite the vehement objections — until now undisclosed — of career lawyers and agency officials who had argued that there was no credible evidence of widespread discrimination. What is more, some protested, the template for the deal — the $50,000 payouts to black farmers — had proved a magnet for fraud. http://spotlightoncorruption.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/obama-and-holder-tied-to-the-pigford-scandal/

Obama and Holder Tied To The Pigford Scandal

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Among those influential members of Congress was then-Senator Barack Obama, who made Pigford payouts a priority in exchange for political support for his 2008 presidential campaign among a coveted group of black voters in the rural South, the Times reports.

As president, Obama continued to support payouts for new groups of claimants while abandoning a review process that had been used to fight fraud. The aim was “buying the support” of minorities, according to the Times, while middlemen created a “cottage industry” in defrauding the government.

This is the New York Times, now reporting this. Good thing they didn’t tell its readers about this before the election!  They might have gotten some funny ideas about holding Barack Obama accountable.

The deal, several current and former government officials said, was fashioned in White House meetings despite the vehement objections — until now undisclosed — of career lawyers and agency officials who had argued that there was no credible evidence of widespread discrimination. What is more, some protested, the template for the deal — the $50,000 payouts to black farmers — had proved a magnet for fraud.

http://spotlightoncorruption.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/obama-and-holder-tied-to-the-pigford-scandal/

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