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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on June 19, 2010, 03:17:05 PM
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WASHINGTON -- For the third year in a row, Congressional Representative Gregory Meeks (D-Queens) reported no assets -- no retirement account, no investments, no savings -- on his annual financial disclosure to Congress.
He has attracted scrutiny since a federal probe was launched over questions -- first raised by The Post -- about what became of money collected by a charity for Hurricane Katrina victims.
The Post first reported that Meeks' New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families paid out only $1,392 of the roughly $31,000 it collected for victims of the disaster in New Orleans. Meeks has denied wrongdoing.
A federal grand jury slapped him with a subpoena in April demanding records as part the expanding corruption probe, which also targets two other Queens Democrats, state Senate President Malcolm Smith and former Rep. Floyd Flake.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/poor_meeks_lists_big_zero_in_assets_sU7r25zkMu7owBWyHaMmKN#ixzz0rKe837nq
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Floyd Flake: Now there's a name that just rings with Democrat DUmmietude.