While not in direct response to a corruption case involving a former employee of the housing agency and his co-conspirators, concerns about affordable housing development in the county have been expressed for decades.
The FBI last week detailed an $11 million affordable housing scheme on Hawaiʻi Island that led to four indictments. The feds credited the nonprofit news organization Environment Hawaiʻi for flagging the case. Editor Patricia Tummons spoke with The Conversation about getting the story.
Kimberly Gallegos of New Mexico s Transportation Department labeled it "just a simple mistake" that had drivers on Route 66 and Interstate 40 doing double takes, with a new sign pointing them toward "Albuqueque" instead of Albuquerque.
After a more than 5-year investigation, the U-S Department of Justice brought down the hammer today on four men in what s it s calling a conspiracy to defraud the County of