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      <excerpt>...charity. As The Post reported Sunday, New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families (NOAH-F), a group set up by Rep. Gregory Meeks and state Senate President Malcolm Smith, reported spending only $1,392 of the more than $31,000 it collected for Kat</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and its relief effort, called New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families (NOAH-F), which was created by Rep. Gregory Meeks and state Sen. Malcolm Smith. A Post probe found that the charity, New Direction Local Development Corp., gave out only $1</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Rep. Gregory Meeks and state Sen. Malcolm Smith set up The New Direction Local Development Corporation charity in 2001 with Ponzi billionaire Allen Stanford ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...members contacted by The Post were clueless as to where the rest of the money went. State Sen. Malcolm Smith and Rep. Gregory Meeks of Queens helped set up the charity. Smith yesterday said it was &quot;an outright lie&quot; that he had anything to do with the di</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>NEW YORK&#160;(AP/1010 WINS)&#160; -- Tax records raise doubts about whether a charity set up by two New York politicians to help Hurricane Katrina survivors gave much of the money to storm victims.
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      <excerpt>...* Selected AEG group Feb. 5 over four other bidders. * Met with Flake three days later and discussed politics. REP. GREGORY MEEKS * Former prot&#233;g&#233; of Flake. Meeks succeeded Flake as representative for the 6th Congressional District in Queens in 1998. </excerpt>
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