Posted on 07/30/2005 4:24:51 AM PDT by jimbo123
July 30, 2005 -- It's the kind of outrageous story that would raise the hackles of talk-show host Al Franken: A government-funded agency serving the needy lends nearly $500,000 to a shaky political radio network and is never repaid. Except it involves Franken's own Air America.
The network issued a statement yesterday admitting its connection to The Bronx's Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Clubs, which lost nearly $10 million in city contracts last month after investigators uncovered "significant inappropriate transaction and falsified documents."
One irregularity, first reported by Michael Horowitz in The City News, a Bronx-based publication, was the $480,000 transfer to Air America.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Bump for lurking MSM types.
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