Top Department of Housing and Urban Development officials, including the one in charge of Indian housing, talked about retaliating against a subordinate, The Washington Post reports.
The paper obtained e-mails between Orlando J. Cabrera, the former assistant secretary of public and Indian housing, and Kim Kendrick, another assistant secretary. They wanted to punish the agency's housing director in Philadelphia because he refused to turn over property to a businessman with ties to the Bush administration.
Would you like me to make his life less happy? If so, how?" Cabrera wrote about Philadelphia housing director Carl R. Greene.
"Take away all of his Federal dollars?" Kendrick responded. "Let me look into that possibility," Cabrera wrote.
Cabrera joined HUD in November 2005 and abruptly resigned in January 2007 amid an investigation into HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson. He said he had been interviewed by investigators about Jackson, who is accused of rewarding allies of the administration with federal dollars.
Get the Story:HUD E-Mails Refer to Retaliation (The Washington Post 3/12)
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