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As we all know, Ben Carson, who is a former neurosurgeon, is the unqualified secretary of HUD (Housing and Urban Development). Carson has been protested for being terrible at his job and he is even attempting to take away fair housing from low-income people. However, Carson tainting HUD doesn’t just end with him. Reportedly, Candy Carson, his wife, and his son Ben Carson Jr. also work at HUD. In August, Ben Jr. was asked about his position and he said, “With anything where we can be helpful, if Dad asks us to come along and help out, we’ll always do that. We’re here to offer support, whatever we can do.” Come along and help out? Did you “come along and help out” when he was performing brain surgery? Sounds like serious nepotism.

CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington), a watchdog group, demanded details under the Freedom of Information Act, but FFRF.com reports the request was shut down, “CREW sought a fee waiver and records, including emails, relating to the role Carson’s son and wife play in HUD, where they are ‘omnipresent’ fixtures. HUD denied another of CREW’s waivers, this time for records relating to Carson’s use of private planes to travel.” Yep, you read that right — the good doctor might be using private plane travel on taxpayer money.

HUD and Carson are blocking CREW and other watchdog groups by denying “fee waivers,” which are required under the law to make a Freedom of Information Act request. Along with his family working at HUD and a private plane, FFRF (Freedom From Religion Foundation) and CREW filed an additional request about peculiar bible study sessions at the White House that are potentially taxpayer-funded. FFRF.com reports, “FFRF is seeking the records to determine whether or not the bible study uses government resources, whether staffers may feel coerced into organizing or even participating in the religious event, and to ascertain government access granted to Capitol Ministries, a group that seeks to evangelize elected officials.”

Due to all of the requests being blocked, FFRF filed a lawsuit yesterday “in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit alleges that HUD has a pattern and practice of denying fee waivers on Freedom of Information Act requests ‘where disclosure of the requested documents is likely to cast the agency or HUD Secretary Ben Carson in a negative light.’”

Does Dr. Ben Carson have something to hide? If not, why block all of these requests, which appear to question if taxpayers are paying for his family, a private plane and bible study sessions? This all sounds seriously suspect, especially considering the countless investigations under the Trump administration.

Transparency is key, Dr. Carson. What would Jesus do?

SOURCE: FFRF

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Ben Carson’s Unqualified Son And Wife Work At HUD And People Are Pissed  was originally published on newsone.com