Obama USDA offering women, Hispanic farmers over $1.3 billion in discrimination payouts | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 11391214 United States 09/25/2012 08:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The $1.25 billion Pigford II settlement — which covered black farmers who charged that the USDA had discriminated against them when applying for loans from 1981 to 1996 but missed the filing deadline in the original 1999 Pigford settlement (named for the lead plaintiff, Timothy Pigford, in a class action lawsuit against the government) — made headlines in 2011 for the allegations of fraud in the program. Quoting: sonic doom [link to dailycaller.com] |