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Audit scolds Community Action of Minneapolis for misspending hundreds of thousands of dollars
Star Tribune ^ | 9-20-14 | ALEJANDRA MATOS

Posted on 09/22/2014 5:04:24 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

Leaders of a Minneapolis nonprofit that serves low-income residents used taxpayer money to pay for a celebrity cruise and trips to Palm Beach and the Bahamas, according to a recently completed state audit.

Along with the trips, the audit by the state Department of Human Services found that the nonprofit’s leaders spent public money on bonuses, golf, spa treatments, furniture, alcohol and even a personal car loan.

The audit concluded that the organization’s longtime chief executive, Bill Davis, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars from 2011 to 2013.

“It was deeply concerning how the dollars are being used,” Chuck Johnson, DHS’s deputy commissioner, said in an interview with the Star Tribune.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: democrats; ellison; fraud; mpls; nonprofit; waste
"Deeply disturbing"...and nothing will happen. I'm sure most leftist 'non-profits' do this.
1 posted on 09/22/2014 5:04:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

But this is nothing compared to the POTUS mishandling of public funds on a much grander scale...


2 posted on 09/22/2014 5:07:22 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: TurboZamboni

This reminds of the time some dip sh8 thought our church should spend $5000 of the playground fund on a party for the committee.


3 posted on 09/22/2014 5:13:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: TurboZamboni

SOP for these types of groups.

And audits are racist.


4 posted on 09/22/2014 5:17:38 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Why do these orgs get tax money at all?


5 posted on 09/22/2014 5:20:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: yldstrk

That sounds exactly like a liberal.


6 posted on 09/22/2014 5:22:13 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TurboZamboni

Throw them in a dumpster head first.


7 posted on 09/22/2014 5:51:09 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Bill Davis, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars from 2011 to 2013. WRONG

What they mean is HE STOLE IT, Why isn’t he in JAIL??


8 posted on 09/22/2014 6:46:03 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: TurboZamboni

The RedStar Tribune reports this morning that Keith Ellison, state senator Jeff Hayden, Minneapolis City Council President Barbara Johnson and councilor Robert Lilligren are on the board but sent proxies to meetings.

A who’s who of the Minneapolis DFL.


9 posted on 09/22/2014 10:02:17 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

$2.8 million of state money and all we’ll get is another ‘task force’ to “look into it’.

nobody will be fired or jailed.


10 posted on 09/23/2014 12:08:18 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni
"Ethics complaint to be filed against State Sen. Jeff Hayden"



http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/276814671.html

11 posted on 09/23/2014 3:39:42 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Is that a weasel on his lapel?


12 posted on 09/23/2014 3:40:58 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Might as well be.

It’s a gopher.


13 posted on 09/23/2014 3:49:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Former treasurer(Davis) for the state DFL laundering money-color me shocked.

They admended their own budget to reflect 100% spent on ‘administrative costs’.


14 posted on 09/24/2014 12:25:41 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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