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Feds' probe of Meeks taking sidetrack to Jamaica biz group
New York Post ^ | April 18, 2010 | Isabel Vincent & Melissa Klein

Posted on 04/18/2010 11:52:24 AM PDT by jazusamo

Among the Queens charities to benefit from the largess of embattled Rep. Gregory Meeks is the Greater Jamaica Development Corp.

That relationship has apparently drawn attention from federal investigators, who have reportedly subpoenaed Meeks' records related to the group.

A federal grand jury is probing several Queens nonprofits' connections to local politicians.

In 2003, Meeks helped steer $21 million in tax credits to Greater Jamaica to create an as-yet unbuilt "airport village" complex of housing, shops and a hotel near the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road and JFK AirTrain station stops. The 10-parcel site, which is just under one acre, will be "made available for development as market conditions allow," according to a Greater Jamaica spokesman.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 111th; cultureofcorruption; fedinvestigation; meeks

1 posted on 04/18/2010 11:52:25 AM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

Is this guy just yet another DIMocrat pursuing his perspective of “the American dream”? Nothing to see here...move along...


2 posted on 04/18/2010 12:27:04 PM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) ajmo0unts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: hal ogen

Yep, seems he’s from the same old school as William Jefferson and just may be joining him in that government building with free room and board.


3 posted on 04/18/2010 12:33:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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