Posted on 10/19/2009 6:34:29 AM PDT by La Lydia
In a city ravaged by the highest rate of AIDS cases in the nation, the D.C. Health Department paid millions to nonprofit groups that delivered substandard services or failed to account for any work at all, even as sick people searched for care or died waiting. More than $1 million in AIDS money went to a housing group whose ailing boarders sometimes struggled without electricity, gas or food. A supervisor said she was ordered to create records for ghost employees. More than $500,000 was earmarked for a housing program whose executive director had a string of convictions for theft, drugs and forgery...the city terminated the grant but never sought repayment.
About $400,000 was paid to a nonprofit organization, launched by a man who once ran one of the District's largest cocaine rings, for a promised job-training center that has never opened.
All told, the Health Department's HIV/AIDS Administration awarded more than $25 million from 2004 to 2008 to nonprofit agencies marked by questionable spending, a lack of clients, or lapses in record-keeping and care, a 10-month Washington Post investigation found. Many of the groups have since closed or are no longer providing AIDS services...
Early on, the District focused on white gay men in more affluent areas. In recent years, however, city officials have pushed to support community-based groups in poorer neighborhoods...But the program morphed into something of a free-for-all among many nonprofit groups, enabled by a city agency that routinely gave out money but failed to ensure the funds were used to help people with the disease.
The waste has spanned every arm of the HIV/AIDS Administration... More than 20 failed to file tax returns or secure a city business license...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Corruption in DC. Who knew?
And government management of the health care industry will be flawless, squeezing out ever bit of waste, fraud, and abuse, and saving the taxpayers billions ...
How can people not see? Government is a system of organized crime. They aren't here to solve the problem. They are the problem.
This story is just a preview of things to come in the wonderful country Congress and Obama have planned for us.
Sounds like when the ACORN like Obama people ,got their hands on the funds ,it was a free for all to gyp the Government.
....when I comtemplate DC I think: “Escape from New York” meets “Blade Runner”
Large parts of it are like that, some parts aren’t. Colbert King has done a great job of chronicling the Blade Runner-Escape from New York parts, focusing on the vicious juveniles this city grows, and how it fails to deal with them.
Try living around WDC. It is a scandal a day. Remember the $6o million stolen in the “tax refund” office of the WDC government? Then Obama appointed the manager of the office as his IT Czar. My aching head!
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I do live around WDC.
I suspect that Federal giveaways of this same general type are equally wasteful and corrupt.
What a sewer. It almost seems as if some sort of shady past or prison time was a requirement. I have noticed that the left idolizes those who have gone bad and then rehabilitated far more than those who never took the crimninal or drug path in the first place. Committing a criminal offense is almost like an initiation rite of passage.
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