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Ben Carson asks HUD to cancel order for $31,000 dining set
Followup to yesterday's thread below. The pompous Carson and his wife knowingly attempted to spend more than US law allows, but were thwarted by a whistleblower. No word yet on her fate.
https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...-complaint-over-ben-carson-office-redeco.html
By STEPHANIE EBBS
Mar 1, 2018
Ben and Candy Carson
The Department of Housing and Urban Development confirmed Thursday that Secretary Ben Carson has asked the agency to cancel an order for a $31,000 dining set for his office suite after the agency came under scrutiny for the cost of the furniture. "At the request of the Secretary, the agency is working to rescind the order for the dining room set," communications director Raffi Williams said in a statement. HUD confirmed that agency staff ordered the furniture for the room adjacent to Carson's office. The agency released documents detailing the purchase in response to questions about a complaint filed by an employee who said she felt pressured to approve funds to decorate Carson's office that were above the legal limit. That employee, Helen Foster, worked as the agency's chief administrative officer during the transition to the Trump administration. In November she filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel that she was told to approve funds to redecorate Carson's office even after she told her superiors that there was a legal $5,000 limit for decorating expenses.
Followup to yesterday's thread below. The pompous Carson and his wife knowingly attempted to spend more than US law allows, but were thwarted by a whistleblower. No word yet on her fate.
https://www.debatepolitics.com/brea...-complaint-over-ben-carson-office-redeco.html
