The headline reads:
Hagan Firm Keeps Stimulus Project Savings, Sends None to Taxpayers
Hiring family-owned company seems to have violated conflict-of-interest policy."
The article states:
"By reducing its spending on the project by $114,519, JDC contributed only $73,464 — or 23 percent of the total project cost, instead of the 43 percent contribution it offered in the original grant application. Though the cost of the project dropped, CDC still received the entire $250,644 in federal grant money."
"The House and Senate adopted the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus bill, on Feb. 13, 2009, with Kay Hagan casting one of the 60 votes necessary to enact the bill in the Senate. Hagan made a point, in a press release issued on the day the bill passed, of citing the stimulus bill’s “promise to change the way things work in Washington” to favor “working families” rather than “special interests.”
EXCEPT, OF COURSE, WHEN HER FAMILY IS INVOLVED!
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