Perdue Aide Voted On Grant Rules: ; Mason Officials Will Meet with Feds Today
Charleston Gazette › November 03, 2011
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Last fall, state Treasurer John Perdue's designee to the West Virginia Housing Development Fund voted to approve the rules, selection criteria and scoring system ultimately used by the state agency's staff to award a $3.67 million federal stimulus grant to a Charleston developer with ties to Perdue, records show.
Three months later, Perdue and his wife sold an 11-acre property to the developer, Douglas E. Pauley, for $215,000, according to Mason County property records. Pauley, a longtime friend and Perdue campaign donor, is building a 32-unit apartment complex on the Perdues' former farmland property.See the full content of this document
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Perdue Aide Voted On Grant Rules: ; Mason Officials Will Meet with Feds Today
The U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI are investigating the land deal. Pauley is cooperating with federal authorities.
Perdue, who sits on the state Housing Development Fund's board, said Wednesday that federal investigators have asked him to provide "documentation" about the land he and his wife, Robin, sold to...See the full content of this document
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