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                                 CONTACT: Ray Normandeau 718 392-1267
                      Press Secretary for Queensbridge Tenant Council
      (Ray is an AFTRA/SAG Member and an excellent interview subject)

 News updates and prior releases by modem, 212-274-8110, Newsgroup #5


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                          Jew Denounces ADL

         Blacks say "Farrakhan doesn't speak for all Blacks"

                Inter-Racial Couple says "It's all BS"

   Queensbridge Houses Tenants Say "HUD Has Covered Up Long Enough"

    HUD Employees allege that Jack Kemp is mismanaging HUD Budget

On Wednesday August 12, 1992 the Queensbridge Tenant Association held
a protest rally at the NYC office of the scandal plagued US
Department of Housing and Urban Development. The hilite was the
enthusiasm showed by bystanders when the Queensbridge Houses tenants
chanted "HUD has covered up long enough". This enthusiasm was shared
by tenants leaders of other Public Housing Projects throughout the
city as well as HUD employees, who watched from the sidelines.

Queensbridge tenants have been charging that NYC HUD Head, Doctor
Villane and HUD Engineers have been covering-up for organized crime
contractors and as well as for a HUD sanctioned NYC HA protection
racket. The protection racket is the NYC HA Tenant Patrol
Organization which has done absolutely nothing to eradicate drug
dealing from the projects but which gets HUD money and HUD sanction.
Tenant Patrol only benefits NYC HA big-wigs who get big salaries out
of this scam.

Two days after the Queensbridge Houses protest, HUD employees charged
that Jack Kemp, Secretary of HUD had been mismanaging the HUD budget.
The Law Offices of Passman & Kaplan (202-659-2537) held a press
conference to expose HUD mismanagement. Queensbridge Houses tenants
say that HUD looks the other way at allegations of shoddy workmanship
of organized crime connected contractors.

While some would portray Jack Kemp as an early contender for the 1996
GOP presidential nomination along with former anti-drug director Bill
Bennett, Queensbridge tenants say that these two guys must be taking
part in a gross charade. Jack Kemp can't properly supervise one
Federal agency and Bennett might as well be a "drug king pin" for all
the good that he has done. In a combo public housing and drug
incident, Queensbridge children were recently chased away from a
Police Athletic League playground by gun totting drug dealers. Police
have not shown up yet!

Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing project in the USA
and is a concentrated USA is its cross section of races, religions,
economic and ethnic groups. Queensbridge Houses has many problems.
Tenant leaders have been tipped off that Queensbridge Houses manager
Scott Krikawa will not be returning to Queensbridge Houses from his
vacation but instead may be heading for the unemployment office.

The Queensbridge/Fruit of Islam controversy which has already been
covered in the NY Daily News, NY Times, Newsday and various broadcast
media, is heading for the courts in September. The ADL has apparently
unduly influenced Jack Kemp to disallow the Fruit of Islam from
providing security at Queensbridge Houses. The ADL has meddled in NYC
HA affairs by opposing Fruit of Islam desired participation at
Queensbridge Houses. In an on-the-air interview on WBAI on Tuesday
August 18, 1992, Jewish tenant leader Violet Hamilton denounced the
ADL. Hamilton stated that the FOI would be good for Queensbridge
Houses. Hamilton stated that the "Tenant Patrol is doing nothing."
The name Violet Hamilton may ring a bell. Early this year, she was in
the news as the victim of attempted blackmail by NYC Chair Laura
Blackburne.

Pending September litigation, the Queensbridge Tenant Council has
been tracking down through the computer networks as a contingency
plan the National Black Rifleman's Association and A-AMAN (the
African-American Men Against Narcotics.) These groups have prior
experience in patrolling housing projects while being armed with
rifles.

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