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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

"McDonnell says he will return other gifts"
Wash Post Jul 30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcdonnell-says-he-will-return-other-gifts/2013/07/30/46932154-f923-11e2-afc1-c850c6ee5af8_story.html?hpid=z4
" . . . McDonnell (R) made the comment in a radio interview one week after announcing that he had repaid $120,000 in loans that Williams had made — $70,000 to a real estate company owned by the governor and his sister and $50,000 to first lady Maureen McDonnell. . . . "

Monday, July 29, 2013

"GAO: Dead farmers might be reaping millions in subsidies"
Hill Jul 29
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/agriculture/314103-dead-farmers-may-be-reaping-millions-gao
"The agency looked at crop insurance data from 2008 to 2012 and “found that $22 million in subsidies and allowances may have been provided on behalf of an estimated 3,434 program policyholders two or more years after death.”

The USDA's Risk Management Agency (RMA), which subsidizes crop insurance, appears to have the biggest problem with making payments to people who are deceased, according to investigators. . . . "