HILL SEEKS PROBE OF 9/11 LOAN OUTRAGES

NY Post ^ | Dec. 31, 2005 | By IAN BISHOP

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December 31, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday called on President Bush to launch an investigation into the Small Business Administration's outrageous bungling of a special loan program meant to help businesses hurt by 9/11. Clinton said she was "particularly incensed" that the SBA pushed lenders across the country to peddle 9/11 loans to a tanning salon in Las Vegas and a golf course in Texas "while many New York businesses struggled just to stay afloat."

She dispatched letters yesterday to Bush and to Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) — the top two members of the Senate Small Business Committee — urging immediate action.

Clinton is pouncing on the damning results of an internal investigation by the SBA's inspector general. The probe came after The Post's stories exposing how dozens of Dunkin' Donut shops around the country got loans totaling more than $20 million under the program.

The Post reports this week have also highlighted how a candy store in Illinois and janitorial service in Colorado secured big loans, while New York City businesses — like Steamers Landing, just blocks from Ground Zero — were turned down by the SBA.

The investigators found that as many as 85 percent of the businesses that got the special STAR loans failed to prove they were harmed by the attacks — and many actually experienced soaring sales immediately after the attacks.

Clinton wrote to Bush that "it is troubling to know that many other businesses with questionable qualifications in parts of the country far removed from New York" received loans, while those near Ground Zero "may have been dissuaded from even applying."

She told her Senate colleagues that oversight hearings are needed to understand "how the program not only failed to adequately oversee ...

[ExTexasRedhead]

Hillary was apparently more outraged over this than Billie Bob's BJ's in the Oval Office. Pardon me, but I doubt her sincerity or outrage over anything--I mean, like she cares.

[BubbaJunebug]

What do you want to bet that those "dozens of Dunkin' Donut" stores are owned by a guy named "Jamal"...half the money went for improvements and half went to terrorists...yep thats what will happen..and hillary will be a hero - get elected -

oh my someone slap me...please

[sgtbono2002]

Hillary works hard getting pork for her re-election efforts, she damned sure doesnt want to see anyone who cant vote for her get the benefit of this pork.

I wonder why she didnt get the Sr. Senator from New York Chuckie Baby to jump on this with her. Maybe she see's it as a winner and doesnt want to share anything with Chucky Baby.

[knarf]

Dear Hilly,
I called George this morning and asked him, as a friend, to do me and you the favor of investigating this matter that is so important to you.
He told me, "The moment she admits to theft and fraud for whitewater and the cattle futures scam, I assure you .... I'll think about it".

No kiddin' Hill, that's what he said.

Well, anyway, I miss you dearly and wish I smelled like fish ( ... (;^) ... )

Yours, ever,
BillyBumpo

[Pit1]

HILL SEEKS PROBE OF 9/11 LOAN OUTRAGES

Oh my brain is crushing under the weight of the sheer number of PROBES.

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Democrats push prisoner abuse probe (Outrageous RATS)

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Frist: Stock Probe May Affect 2008 Plans

Senate to Probe Saudi Hate Literature in Mosques

Report due in Able Danger probe

MSN.Com-DeLay indicted in campaign finance probe

Government was to be a forward looking body and promote goodwill for it citizens (subjects now). How can anyone get anything done when they are probing the prober's? Our government is way out of touch. Gets worse everyday they are in secession, and sometimes when they are not.

[COUNTrecount]

What do you want to bet that those "dozens of Dunkin' Donut" stores are owned by a guy named "Jamal"...half the money went for improvements and half went to terrorists...yep thats what will happen..and hillary will be a hero - get elected - oh my someone slap me...please

Do you have any info on these Dunkin' Donut stores?

[COUNTrecount]

Have a nice day !

[YaYa123]

And Hillary is an expert on loans to women, the poverty stricken, and not just here, but worldwide. Remember her Bejing (Women of the World Unite) speech?

Lots of info online about her touting these loan programs for women, even giving herself credit for inventing them, but precious little on how the programs performed. (Not counting HRC press releases.)

Butt you're right about Hillary cherry-picking her topics. She claimed ownership of loans years ago, so it stands to reason she would use the issue of loans as a presidential "find and fix" platform

[Dawgreg]

I thought it was her job to protect the interests of her constitutents........oh, my bad. She's been running for President since 2000. Sorry.

[FerdieMurphy]

Probe this, Hitlery:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/1999/277.shtml

Has anyone else discovered that all photographs of Craig Livingstone have been expunged from the internet?

[GianniV]

Hillary Clinton is a fat pig. Our first female President will not a fat, screeching pig. She will never be President.

[mewzilla]

A related link...

Hillary Clinton's 9/11 Cash Squandered

From the link:

A four-month investigation by New York's Daily News reveals that the process for doling out the $21.4 billion disaster recovery package was "procedurally flawed" - and that there was "little oversight there was over the spending."

"In effect, no one was watching," the News said - including Mrs. Clinton.

[rodguy911]

Hillary Clinton outraged at govt.fraud and spending abuses, what a great way to stat the new year, with the joke of the century.

[rodguy911]

uhhhhhh,hahahhahahahha Bevis Rocks.

[COUNTrecount]

Thank you.Noted and bookmarked.

[mewzilla]

I so hope Hillie keeps yappin'. Smartest woman in America. SNORT.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

"Oh my brain is crushing under the weight of the sheer number of PROBES." (!!)

You forgot about the House Post office scandal! Oh, thats right, this one died when the files on the 100 or so congressmen--mostly democrat--that were being investigated disappeared when the Clinton administration took over the investigation. Let her investigate this new probe when they give back all the FBI files and re-investigate the post office scandal.

[samtheman]

What were the 2 senators from NY doing during all this time? Why did she wait until now to care about this issue?

[Trajan88]

I bet if Billary gets off her arse, she'll find businesses in Upstate that procured loans too (she won't though, because it would be bad bull to tick off potential voters).

[mewzilla]

They sure weren't overseeing, were they?

From this link: 4-year scandal of the 9/11 billions :

... For 9/11, longstanding disaster aid rules were turned on their head.

...Under the Stafford Act, which governs federal disaster relief, victims typically first apply to the Small Business Administration for loans. If rejected, applications are generally made to FEMA. That rule was dropped in New York.

Congress reaped what it sowed.