FAIR HOUSING: Feds Nab Section 8 Housing Manager Pocketing Bribes
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 08:56 am
Don't fiddle with Section 8 Housing waiting lists.
If you think you can make up your own rules for administering the waiting list for your Section 8 property, think again. Bump someone up the line and you could face the feds in court.
Defendant Samuel Saneaux was the manager of Andrews Plaza, a federally funded Section 8 seven-building rental apartment house complex in the Bronx, NY. At certain times demand for apartments greatly exceeded the supply and there was a lengthy waiting list.
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