FHA Corruption in Philadelphia: The Leon Bloom Case
Washington Post
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Description
The Washington Post reported on corruption in the Federal Housing Administration in Philadelphia. The central figure is Leon Bloom, an area management broker for the agency. Bloom ran a kickback scheme, taking money connected to the properties he managed for the FHA. His realty operation then collapsed. The article lays out the scheme and the fall.
Management brokers handled the government's repossessed houses, and the work invited exactly Bloom's crime: quiet payments around public property. A Post investigation of one broker shows the machinery of the fraud and its discovery. The piece preserves the names and the method. It also records a housing agency's scandal in the city where its broker became the story.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Washington Post |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20,320 bytes |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Internet Archive |