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Left-Wing Groups Misused More than $750,000 in Stimulus Housing Grants
A pair of left-wing groups misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in stimulus grant funds, according to federal investigators, who questioned the validity of every dollar the two groups received.
In a report released Monday, Department of Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general raised concerns about $752,982 in stimulus disbursements to the now-defunct Prisoners Aid Association and the Baltimore-based Public Justice Center, citing shoddy accounting and violations of funding guidelines.
The two groups were sub-recipients of a stimulus grant designed to prevent homelessness and re-house the homeless. HUD gave more than $9.5 million to the city of Baltimore to administer the grant. The city contracted with United Way of Central Maryland, which selected the Public Justice Center and Prisoners Aid as sub-grantees.
Expense reports filed by Prisoners Aid showed it spent only $157,234 of the $270,550 it received from the city of Baltimore. That total was significantly less than the $392,982 in grant money Baltimore drew down for the Prisoners Aid grant.
What’s more, the group “could not produce participant files or records to support the $270,550 in grant funds it was paid,” according to the IG. The report questioned the entire $392,982 in grant funds.
Prisoners Aid recently folded in the midst of chronic financial problems. In July of last year, United Way terminated its relationship with the group. Frank Marchant, who took over as executive director in March of that year, said his predecessor had double-dipped in HUD grant money, billing expenses for the same participants to two different anti-homelessness programs, including the one examined in the most recent IG report.
Hedgehog
November 16th, 2012
Imagine that! Stimulus money disappearing down some Commie rat hole. I never could have seen that coming.
Tim
November 16th, 2012
Every dollar of Porkulus money was stolen.
Where the Hell have these morons been?
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
November 16th, 2012
It’s gub’mint money – I think these groups are as surprised as I am that anyone would even bother to see how the money was wasted.
Gina
November 16th, 2012
does it really matter.. following the fair housing act?
Edith McCrotch
November 16th, 2012
“In July of last year, United Way terminated its relationship with the group.”
Yeah, after they took their fee I’m sure.
The United Way = The United Nations of Charities
TheFineReport.com
November 16th, 2012
It was given to BE stolen — payoff money.
Welcome to Obamaville.