We should all have an ex like this one

http://www.miamiherald.com/540/story/141137.html

Every divorced guy would love an ex-wife like Barbara Gomez. the chief of Miami's public housing agency, she helped funnel more than $1 million in city contracts to companies employing one of her former husbands. The lucky dude is Ruben A. Santana, a one-time Sweetwater cop and carpet salesman. He and Gomez divorced in 1978, but apparently the spark never died.

Gomez's theme song should be: Stand By Your Ex-Man. Stand by him even after the FBI raids his house and finds 11 weapons, including a fully automated AR-15 machine gun. Stand by him even after he goes on the lam for 15 months as a federal fugitive. Stand by him even after he does six years in the slammer for smuggling cocaine in a shipment of tropical fish.

When Santana got out of prison in October 2004, his loyal ex-wife was there to help him make a new start on life. So, unwittingly, were U.S. taxpayers. Within weeks of Santana's release, Gomez recommended to the Miami City Commission that federal monies be taken from a nonprofit group and reallocated to, among other recipients, a firm that had just hired Santana as marketing director. The company, which provided meals for the poor, was called Judy's Catering. It was a financial shipwreck, although its travails didn't discourage Gomez from being generous. During a 16-month stretch when her ex was the marketing director, Judy's Catering got almost $700,000 in loans, grants and bids through Gomez's department.

One hefty loan was for $300,000. Six months later, the company's phone was disconnected, and city inspectors couldn't find the owners. By then, Santana had popped up as executive director of a nonprofit agency called Sunshine For All Inc., which also prepares meals for the needy and inspects public housing for AIDS patients. Once again, Santana's presence was providential. Since he joined Sunshine For All, the group has received almost $300,000 and has been promised $200,000 more.

...and management of low cost housing and home ownership programs for almost 30 years. And in all that time without exception, most of these failed housing programs are the result of corruption, stupidity and/or racism.

Or a combination of all three.

me to participate. it takes two to play the game. :shrug:

Imagine what would have happened if they were still married. Her generosity might have gone into things like sex, companionship, warm hugs and candlelit dinners instead of doling out public funds. And there'd be less financial fraud.