As a U.S. senator, Rick Santorum engineered a land deal that robbed the military's top veterans' home of tens of millions of dollars and worsened the conditions at the facility, Mother Jones reports. An amendment Santorum added to a 1999 defense bill forced the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington D.C. to sell its land to Catholic University next door for $22 million instead of leasing it -- a price $27 million less than the land's value and $83 million less than the profits from a lease plan. "I'm convinced Sen. Santorum is no friend of veterans," said Laurence Branch, the former executive director of the home's board.
