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The $1.25 Billion Pigford II Black Farmers’ Settlement
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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 789466" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><strong><a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/12/08/pigford-witness-report-700-claims-filed-with-my-name-on-them-many-from-hundreds-of-miles-away/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Pigford Witness Report: 700 Claims Filed with My Name on Them, Many From Hundreds of Miles Away</span></a></strong></p><p></p><p><em>From a USDA employee with close to 30 years experience:</em></p><p><em></em>Pigford was a nightmare. There was lots of money to be made—most of it by the trial lawyers. There were legitimate claims. It happens that people do sometimes discriminate and those people should be compensated. But really everyone was put in the crosshairs. They were indicting the entire USDA.</p><p> Lawyers were churning applications. My name starts turning up on documents as someone who denied someone services. Trouble was those people were hundreds of miles away. I think there was something like 700 forms filed with my name on them—it was outrageous. I had never heard of any of them. I discovered that my name had been put on leaflets, which charges that I was a racist, and people just put my name on Pigford applications. I finally had to get black farmers to vouch for me. They all said I treated everyone fairly, which is what I tried to do.</p><p> There were lots of fraudulent claims that were sent to the federal government. I think there was a political motivation there. The lawyers were getting their money and there was a lot to get. In the 2008 farm bill there was actually $100 million set aside to investigate fraud under Pigford. But when the Obama Administration came in, the investigation was never done. I think we as taxpayers deserve to know where our money went, don’t you think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 789466, member: 12952"] [B][URL="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/12/08/pigford-witness-report-700-claims-filed-with-my-name-on-them-many-from-hundreds-of-miles-away/"][COLOR=red]Pigford Witness Report: 700 Claims Filed with My Name on Them, Many From Hundreds of Miles Away[/COLOR][/URL][/B] [I]From a USDA employee with close to 30 years experience: [/I]Pigford was a nightmare. There was lots of money to be made—most of it by the trial lawyers. There were legitimate claims. It happens that people do sometimes discriminate and those people should be compensated. But really everyone was put in the crosshairs. They were indicting the entire USDA. Lawyers were churning applications. My name starts turning up on documents as someone who denied someone services. Trouble was those people were hundreds of miles away. I think there was something like 700 forms filed with my name on them—it was outrageous. I had never heard of any of them. I discovered that my name had been put on leaflets, which charges that I was a racist, and people just put my name on Pigford applications. I finally had to get black farmers to vouch for me. They all said I treated everyone fairly, which is what I tried to do. There were lots of fraudulent claims that were sent to the federal government. I think there was a political motivation there. The lawyers were getting their money and there was a lot to get. In the 2008 farm bill there was actually $100 million set aside to investigate fraud under Pigford. But when the Obama Administration came in, the investigation was never done. I think we as taxpayers deserve to know where our money went, don’t you think? [/QUOTE]
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