First on CNN: Emails show Ben, Candy Carson selected $31,000 dining setBy Rene Marsh and Gregory Wallace, CNN
Updated 6:35 AM ET, Wed March 14, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/politics/emails-ben-candy-carson-dining-set/index.htmlWashington (CNN) -- Newly released emails cast doubt on claims by Secretary Ben Carson and his spokesman that he had little or no involvement in the purchase of a $31,000 furniture set for his Department of Housing and Urban Development dining room.
Emails show Carson and his wife selected the furniture themselves.
An August email from a career administration staffer, with the subject line "Secretary's dining room set needed," to Carson's assistant refers to "printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out."
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