Meeks failed to report the personal loan -- and a $15,000 loan from the Congressional Federal Credit Union -- on his annual congressional financial-disclosure reports. He only came clean on the 2009 report, which was filed on June 15. Three days later, he submitted amendments saying he took out the interest-only $40,000 loan in 2007 and had paid it back. City records show that Meeks took out a $59,650 third mortgage on his home on June 18, the same day he reported repaying the debt to Ahmad.
Meeks and his mortgaged home.
Meeks, who earns $174,000 tax dollars a year, is required to pay $1,451.48 quarterly on that 10-year loan. The congressman did not respond to requests for comment. Meeks is under federal investigation after the Post revealed questionable spending practices at a tax-exempt charity he started with NY state Sen. Malcolm Smith.