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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029520.txt
In 2012, a $91M hotel-condo project called Palm House was marketed to Chinese, Iranian and Turkish investors as a promising EB-5 investment. The marketing materials featured photos of the Clintons and Donald Trump as part of an advisory board along with celebrities like Celine Dion and Tony Bennett. However, more than six years later, the project remains unfinished and the hotel's dilapidated structure was sold in a bankruptcy auction for just shy of $40 million to a U.S. affiliate of London & Regional Properties. The key people involved in the project, Robert Matthews and Nicholas Laudano, pleaded guilty to fraud charges related to EB-5 funding misappropriation, while the 91 investors lost their $500,000 investments and never received their green cards.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024294.txt
This document highlights the accomplishments of a representative during their first term in office from 2015-2016. Some key achievements include being named to various committees and groups such as the Agriculture Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Democratic Leadership Steering and Policy Committee, and more. They were also selected for President Obama's White House Renewable Energy roundtable group. Their legislative activity included successfully removing the Virgin Islands from PROMESA, securing VA decisions to expand Choice Program eligibility for Virgin Islands resident veterans, and co-sponsoring legislation to expand the VA choice program eligibility (H.R.572). They also led efforts to defeat an amendment that would have reduced federal dollars for the Virgin Islands and secured commitment from the Army Corp of Engineers for increased personnel and resources for the Virgin Islands backlog of permits.