Posted on 06/20/2010 2:39:37 PM PDT by Scanian
When will Congress take the “public” out of the Public Broadcasting System?
A subsidiary of New York City’s PBS station, Channel 13, has agreed to pay back nearly $1 million after the US attorney filed a civil grant-fraud lawsuit.
Prosecutors charged that the Educational Broadcasting Corp., which produces programming for Channel 13, “made false or fraudulent claims” and “submitted false statements” regarding $1.2 million in federal grants between 2001 and 2008.
As a result, the suit alleged, EBC (which was not forced to admit wrongdoing) “received monies to which it is not entitled” — whatever that means.
And taxpayers won’t learn what it means — under terms of the settlement.
None of the publicly available documents spells out the nature of the fraud — and the US Attorney’s Office won’t explain why Channel 13 was spared the public embarrassment of detailing the fraud.
How ironic: It’s a public network, meant for and funded by the public, but it won’t make its documents public.
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MORE TREASONOUS HIDEOUSNESS, most likely.
“When will Congress take the “public” out of the Public Broadcasting System?”
The more important question is, if the GOP takes back Congress, when will they take out PBS altogether?
This says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=druQ6olIfm4
Probably failed to bribe the right people. Thought they could keep all of the grant money for their programming. Silly people. Apparently they’re not from Chicago.
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