Posted on 08/02/2005 3:21:21 AM PDT by Liz
A top staffer at the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in The Bronx "conned" the organization into lending nearly $500,000 to the left-wing radio network Air America — a move that eventually doomed the youth group, a board member charged yesterday.
The accused staffer, Evan Montvel-Cohen, wore two hats, as development director at Gloria Wise and as founder of Air America, a start-up national radio network based in Manhattan, where he was trying to raise $30 million.
"I say he's a con man," fumed Hillel Valentine, a longtime member of the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club's executive committee and a former assistant chief in the New York Transit Police Department.
Cohen never raised the $30 million — and the company he formed to start up Air America, home to Al Franken's radio show, never paid back the money to Gloria Wise, which serves 20,000 kids.
Most of Gloria Wise's programs, based at Co-Op City, were shut last week as the city's Department of Investigation probed the not-for-profit's finances.
"He not only conned us, he conned Air America," Valentine said, recalling how Montvel-Cohen landed at the Bronx youth center in 2003 with a bang. In just six days, he was organizing a major Manhattan fund-raiser at Pier 61.
Montvel-Cohen, who is from Guam, could not be reached. He was fired from his $74,000-a-year post.........
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Yeah, sure. Now they're playing the victim game.
Like the Gloria Wise people didn't know where the money was going, and why.
How much did these people con out of taxpayers is another question demanding answers.
Paging Eliot Spitzer...
LOL!! Err America. A criminal organization, founded by a con artist, and staffed by con artists. A real RICO operation.
Sounds to me like the Gloria Wise people are also into con-artistry themselves.
But remember, liberals do it all "for the children"...
Ping!
Sob----libs are so "tolerant and compassionate"---as long as there's money in it---preferably gov't money.
The Spitzer needs to do a forensics accounting of the Gloria Wise books top to bottom, start-to finish.
Ack!! Even when it's against them I don't want that man paged. Ack!! Patoowie.
I don't want him in the limelight for fear he will be my next governor, but then again...who else do we have? Dang it!!
You got that right.
Christians are evil.
Capitalism creates oppression; government creates opportunity. Traditional gender roles are artificial but feminism and homosexuality are government-protected lifestyles.
Self-esteem is paramount; government must undertake to guarantee each citizen-victim self-esteem no matter the cost.
The ACLU is good, because destroying religion and silencing believers are protected by the Constitution and the First Amendment; The NRA is bad because it defends the Constitution. Standardized IQ tests are racist; racial quotas and affirmative action are not.
Conservatives are racists; everybody knows that Black people can't make it on their own without big-buck government assistance programs and Hollyweirdos to proselytize the message 24/7.
Abortion is a natural right. The Founders just forgot to put it in the Constitution.
Normal sex is perverted. Threesomes, bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality are just new ways to get a thrill.
Moral indignation is a liberal's standard strategy for endowing our output with superiority.
Victimization is our basic belief by which we blame and find others responsible for our own personal failures, then expect taxpayers, deep-pocketed individuals, or the courts to bail us out. It feels good to be in the throes of "victimization" and either A) causing victims, B) concocting victims, C) playing victim, D) commiserating over victims, or E) creating another class of victims to bleed over. It's a liberal's duty to treat Middle America in the manner of raising mushrooms, that is to say, keep them in the dark and feed them lots of horse manure.
Women are to be valued only for their cleavage.
The traditional family is archaic, constricting, with no redeeming value. Parents that try to guide their children's choices are restrictive. Kids need to be "free".
RICO, yes, but they also violate sections of the Patriot Act.
They're getting their money back. Over two years. On the installment plan. I kid you not.
They are running scared .........they've cooked their books for so long, all of them probaly merit criminal indictment.
Who does AA think they are? NPR?
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