Posted on 04/04/2008 8:04:18 AM PDT by SmithL
The U.S. Department of Justice wants San Francisco to repay $5.4 million in grant money earmarked to help fight the war on drugs in states bordering Mexico because federal auditors found the city was not eligible for the funding.
San Francisco had sought the grant under the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative, which compensates law enforcement agencies in California and other border states for the costs of handling prosecutions in lieu of federal authorities.
As of March of last year, the city claimed it had handled more than 2,241 such cases, but a federal audit released this week found that none of the cases had been referred by federal officials to District Attorney Kamala Harris' office as required under the program.
The audit found that the cases the city cited in its application should have been "disallowed" as "unsubstantiated" under the government's grant criteria.
City officials contacted Thursday were unable to explain the circumstances surrounding San Francisco's application for the grant or how it spent the funds.
A spokeswoman for Harris' office, Erica Derryck, said, "We're aware of the national audit report and are in the process of looking at the questioned costs for San Francisco outlined in the report."
Harris' office would not make the top prosecutor available on Thursday for an interview about the audit, and Derryck declined to answer questions about the report findings or the 2,241 cases in the city's application for federal funds.
Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, in a statement provided by spokesman Nathan Ballard, also acknowledged that city officials know about the report and are working "cooperatively with the Department of Justice to resolve any issues the audit raises."
...said Thursday that the federal government wants its $5.4 million back.
"While we will seek to have excess funds under the Southwest Border Prosecution Initiative returned,
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Attention all of California!.....San Fran welcomes your illegal immigrants. Thank You San Fran! Not only will the oddballs all be in one spot but the illegals will be too!
More likely the 14 extra “assistants” that Newsome has on his staff that make 6 figures. He was using I believe Muni funds to help pay for them. I hope the Feds open a RICO probe of City Hall.
*snicker*
I mention in passing to the local panhandlers that SF pays homeless $500/mo to be homeless in SF...
In my opinion the bag wasn't left on long enough.
The funds will be deducted from future payments. We will not wait for you to come up with the money and pay it back to the treasury.
Hmmm...must be why a huge percentage of the best and brightest people in the country move here. ;)
Do you know one? I’d be delighted to sell them my house!
Can you be homeless for one day/month and get the $500? Do you have to have any ID? Will they provide a shelter with broadband internet access and a private room? If I can get the $500 for one day in a shelter, with no ID, and internet access I can game on the net for one day and then take their money to Tahoe and spend it in Nevada!!! Just imagine if thousands no hundreds of thousands of Americans started protesting non-violently against the San Tran-sisco tyranny in this way. We could get back some of our tax dollars from this regime.
JFaron
OTOH, I see no particular disadvantage to sending them our panhandlers and other bums. By the time they figure out that SF doesn't pay them, they are there and not here!
The last time I spent any money in “The City” was to get an ‘(extra) bitter’ tee shirt from Scharffen Berger Chocolatier for my ex.””
Call them and shop over the phone. Don’t spend your time in SF.
*sigh* I would have, but I failed to plan ahead enough for their delivery times.
My bad.
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