Controversy over pay at the L.A. housing authority is reignited with the announcement of a federal cap. But officials say $260,000 base salary won't change.Naming a new leader to Los Angeles' troubled housing authority three months ago was supposed to help calm a scandal over excessive perks and outsized pay at an agency charged with sheltering the city's poorest residents. full story ![]()

Saliaman Kamara pleaded guilty to conspiring with his wife to obtaining $60,000 in federal housing assistance
nj.com (11 days ago)

Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan chastised the city Housing Authority for the first time Wednesday for dragging its feet on spending nearly $1 billion in federal repair funds.
nydailynews.com (2 months ago)
BOSTON — Massachusetts is receiving $5.3 million from the federal government to help disabled, low-income people avoid becoming homeless or confined to institutions.State officials say the funds from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development will provide supportive housing units and rental assistance to 100 people who are transitioning out of institutional care or are at...
bostonherald.com (3 months ago)
Mon, 13 May 2013 17:29:15by Allen Powell II New Orleans bureauMarrero - The Jefferson Parish Housing Authority is on the hook for nearly $400,000 based on a request for payment sent by the Department of Housing and Urban Development this weekend. Federal officials are requesting the authority repay $391,000, wh...
theadvocate.com (6 days ago)
Less than two months after city officials granted significant tax relief to the Cotton Mill Square housing project, aldermen on Tuesday were asked to allocate an additional 300,000 in federal funds for the development.
unionleader.com (1 month and 22 days ago)
The new head of the BBC said today that he wants to cap severance and redundancy payments for senior staff...
thetimes.co.uk (24 days ago)
Former Chelsea Housing Authority chief Michael E. McLaughlin has agreed to plead guilty to four federal charges of deliberately concealing his inflated salary from state and federal regulators from 2008 until he resigned in 2011, according to a filing in federal court today. “Defendant expressly and unequivocally admits that he committed the crimes charged in all counts of...
boston.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

Stephanie Demouh, originally from west Africa, lived in the four bedroom house in Belgravia, near Sloane Square, for about three years with her family. She was moved after a cap on housing benefit.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 4 days ago)
Disgraced former Chelsea Housing Authority director Michael McLaughlin pleaded guilty today to charges he hid his inflated salary from 2008 to 2011 in a plea deal with federal prosecutors.McLaughlin pleaded guilty to four counts of falsifying documents in U.S. District Court in Boston. Authorities say McLaughlin, 67, “knowingly concealed” his salary in annual housing...
bostonherald.com (2 months and 30 days ago)
Federal prosecutors say a former Newark police officer has admitted conspiring with another person to fraudulently obtain more than $60,000 in payments from a federal public housing assistance program.
northjersey.com (11 days ago)
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