Yes, "removed". They really are legally allowed to do that. It's in the original charter that was made after WWII. I heard a radio interview with Fitts a few years ago in which she detailed her discovery of how this was occuring. She was the director of HUD under Bush #1 and couldn't get an accounting of HUD's finances. When she pried deeper into this, she wound up incurring the wrath of the Virginia farm boys and had to emigrate to New Zealand. Apparently HUD was the mechanism by which this economic pilaging was occuring.