Working for Uncle Sam and Pocketing His Rent Money

There are bad apples in any organization -- and more of them in large organizations, naturally. Still, it is dismaying to me to learn that apparently the problem of federal employees lying about their incomes to get government rental subsidies is so widespread that the Department of Housing and Urban Development has an initiative called "Operation FedRent" aimed at rooting out the cheats. The Dallas Business Journal reports that five feds in Texas have been charged with defrauding HUD out of almost $150,000 in subsidies.