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2:48 PM (11 hours ago)Rep. Bishop Admits There Is Fraud in Pigford, but Says ‘You Can’t Lay That at My Feet’from Big Government by Publius
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The videos that Big Government broke yesterday showing farmers Eddie Slaughter and Willie Head saying that congressman Sanford Bishop knew about fraud in the Pigford Settlement appear to have broken Congressman Bishop. An angry Bishop called the local paper in Albany, Georgia and far from denying the claims that he know about fraud and did nothing about it, he readily admits it.
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From the Albany Herald in Albany, Georgia:
An internet video surfaced Tuesday in which a black farmer, Eddie Slaughter of Buena Vista, accuses Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, of being aware of fraud in the $1 billion Pigford farm discrimination settlement. That prompted a sharp and angry reaction from the congressman.
“Yes, I am aware that there is fraud in the program, that’s why anti-fraud provisions were written into the settlement,” Bishop said Thursday morning “My job was to help secure funding for constituents who had been discriminated against by the USDA. It’s not my job to monitor fraud in the program. I can’t assume responsibility for fraud. You can’t lay that at my feet.
“This is ridiculous. It’s not my job to determine who is a qualified claimant or not, or who gets paid or who doesn’t get paid.”
The settlement was the result of a class action lawsuit filed in 1997 by black farmer Timothy Pigford against the United States Department of Agriculture and then-Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.
According to Wikipedia, the suit alleged the USDA discriminated against black farmers when deciding to allocate price support loans, disaster payments for farm ownership and operating loans, and that the USDA had failed to process subsequent complaints about racial discrimination.
The suit was settled in 1999 under a consent decree where all black farmers were to be paid $50,000 and granted certain loan forgiveness and tax offsets
2:48 PM (11 hours ago)Rep. Bishop Admits There Is Fraud in Pigford, but Says ‘You Can’t Lay That at My Feet’from Big Government by Publius
1 person liked this**UPDATED**
The videos that Big Government broke yesterday showing farmers Eddie Slaughter and Willie Head saying that congressman Sanford Bishop knew about fraud in the Pigford Settlement appear to have broken Congressman Bishop. An angry Bishop called the local paper in Albany, Georgia and far from denying the claims that he know about fraud and did nothing about it, he readily admits it.
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From the Albany Herald in Albany, Georgia:
An internet video surfaced Tuesday in which a black farmer, Eddie Slaughter of Buena Vista, accuses Rep. Sanford Bishop Jr., D-Albany, of being aware of fraud in the $1 billion Pigford farm discrimination settlement. That prompted a sharp and angry reaction from the congressman.
“Yes, I am aware that there is fraud in the program, that’s why anti-fraud provisions were written into the settlement,” Bishop said Thursday morning “My job was to help secure funding for constituents who had been discriminated against by the USDA. It’s not my job to monitor fraud in the program. I can’t assume responsibility for fraud. You can’t lay that at my feet.
“This is ridiculous. It’s not my job to determine who is a qualified claimant or not, or who gets paid or who doesn’t get paid.”
The settlement was the result of a class action lawsuit filed in 1997 by black farmer Timothy Pigford against the United States Department of Agriculture and then-Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman.
According to Wikipedia, the suit alleged the USDA discriminated against black farmers when deciding to allocate price support loans, disaster payments for farm ownership and operating loans, and that the USDA had failed to process subsequent complaints about racial discrimination.
The suit was settled in 1999 under a consent decree where all black farmers were to be paid $50,000 and granted certain loan forgiveness and tax offsets
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