Grandmother's Right, Or Grandson's Gift ?

The FBI wanted to look over the records, of the HARP organization . A program set up to assist the elderly low-income citizens of Memphis. With costly repairs and even rebuilding, of their present homes. It's not like these are, exquisite sought after homes. In the trendiest parts of town. It provides the opportunity for elderly citizens, to remain in their present neighborhoods. Many of these homes are in such bad repair, they're barely standing. Due to neglect from lack of money, or various other reasons. In many cases it's just cheaper in the long run, to tear the decaying structure down. With utilities on the rise, you could easily pay a modest mortgage. Trying to heat and cool an energy inefficient house. I think it's a wonderful thing, for those who qualify. That's the keyword here qualify.Here lies the issue in dispute. City Councilman Ricky Peete's grandmother, is the recipient of one of the houses. According to some of the neighbors, the house wasn't in that bad of a shape. The F.B.I. wants to know if any conflict of interest laws, were broken in the process. If society went around requiring every grandson, to fully provide for their grandmothers. I dare say we would have a lot of grandmothers walking the street. Often it's the other way around. I would bet the majority of the people in the program have grandsons as well. If Councilman Peete's grandmother qualified for the program, I'm sure there were others who benefited also. They didn't just take tax money, and build 90 year old Lizzie Jones(grandmother) a new house. That's what the program does. The city attorney has issued an opinion . That no conflict of interest occurred. If you are a senior citizen, who qualifies for certain benefits. Should you be denied those benefits because your grandson is successful?You know these vigilante groups are costing the taxpayers a fortune. It cost the taxpayers money, to prove them wrong. Every man hour spent on these investigations, are being paid for by us John Q citizen. A Ex-Judge Ben Cantrell has been hired to work on the Roland case. Who is going to pay for that? He isn't doing the job for free. If Ophelia wins her latest lawsuit, that's another $57,000 added to the list. Everytime one of these off the wall accusations comes up, we tap into state coffers to investigate. The value of the house in question is only $70,000, that's only because it's new. I would like to have the numbers, on the cost of the investigation. I'm saying that to say. The motivation supposedly behind all this checking, is the abuse and waste of taxpayer money. When we chase all the deadend leads.What's a bigger waste than that?