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DAVID HOBSON News:
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Lee Hobson -  Ohio
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- "Rep.
David Hobson steered federal money to projects near properties he owns."
... "U.S. [United States Ohio Republican Representative] Rep. David Hobson
of south-central Ohio has directed millions of taxpayer dollars to two
Ohio projects near real estate he owned, a Plain Dealer review of congressional,
personal-finance and real estate records shows." ... "One project used
federal money to build a freight transfer center at a Columbus [Ohio's
capital] airport to help move goods to and from central Ohio. Hobson co-owns
an office building near the project, and his tenants -- among them U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and several freight companies, including
FedEx -- use that freight center." ... "Since buying into the building
in 2001, records show, Hobson has used his position in Congress to obtain
more than $30 million in federal transportation money to build the freight
transfer station, part of a conversion involving the old Rickenbacker Air
Force Base outside Columbus." ... "In a separate project, Hobson obtained
nearly $2 million from Congress to widen a road in Beavercreek [Ohio],
near Dayton [Ohio], in front of a condominium development in which he was
an investor, the review of records shows." ... "Neighbors of his investment
properties say area real estate values rose, at least partly as a result
of the projects he funded through Congress. Hobson is a senior member of
a committee that determines how to spend federal money." ... "Members of
the budget-writing committee decide in closed meetings which lawmaker-requested
earmarks will get tax money and typically give themselves a greater share."
-By Sabrina Eaton -PlainDealer
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