Posted on 01/01/2022 8:21:16 AM PST by george76
An embattled shelter and services provider that has been repeatedly lit up for failing to address the homeless situation at Penn Station blew city money on a booze cruise, fast food, and movie tickets for its staff, according to an audit.
Bowery Residents’ Committee charged the city at least $2,653 for the $36,510 catered boat ride, along with $1.4 million in other expenses that were either unsupported or not allowed, the audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s office found.
“It’s a cause for concern when the non-profit hired to address the growing homeless crisis has so many red flags on the expenses it bills to the city. Charging taxpayers for a booze cruise is inappropriate at best,” DiNapoli said in a statement.
BRC’s work at MTA hubs including Penn Station was previously called “very expensive” and “minimally effective” by the MTA Inspector General.
The non-profit held $527 million in city homeless service contracts as of 2019.
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Auditors found hundreds of thousands of dollars of personnel and facilities expenses like rent and utilities were incorrectly allocated to BRC’s Jack Ryan Residence contract, instead of to other BRC programs located in the same building.
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The State Comptroller’s audit is the latest black eye for de Blasio’s Department of Homeless Services, whose oversight of $16 billion in contracts over Hizzoner’s tenure has come under repeated scrutiny.
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BRC is one of a handful of scandal-tarred shelter operators who The Post reported in October received $4.6 billion in city tax dollars over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s eight years in office — one out of every four dollars spent on contractors by the Department of Homeless Services.
Other groups are accused of using city money to pay for their director’s “lavish lifestyle.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
https://nypost.com/2019/02/28/de-blasio-and-co-mayor-wife-have-wasted-1-8b-of-taxpayer-money/
rat scumbag grafters enriching themselves
A great example of why the liberal nanny state is a miserable failure.
Ain’t communism grand?
The rest of the money he just squandered.
Democrats blew money legislated for COVID help too... it’s how democrats roll.
Homeless services provider blew city money on staff booze cruise, fast food: audit. ( New York City )
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Good. If taxpayer money is going to be wasted on undeserving freeloaders, then what real difference does it make if it’s wasted at the front end or the back end?
And nary a one will be held accountable.
They should be sued into homelessness.
Didn’t see that coming.
Yep....just your normal ‘connected’ Democrats. Nothing new here..
Safety Net Money = Party Money
Who knew huh
Typical liberals:
We need your tax money to help people!
And then they help themselves.
It’s time to take away tax breaks from non-profits.\
The ‘homeless’ industry? All that money - all these decades? And the situation is worse... Homeless Industry non-profits have been corrupt for decades.
Why
Because the money’s easy and the stupid press won’t look too closely at the ‘politically correct’ Homeless Industry because they’re democrat slush funds.
Poorly written article. Hard to follow. Who is writing for the newspapers these days? Unpaid interns?
Yep, NYC is one of if not the most corrupt city in the country which figures as it’s controlled 100% by Marxists. The only time any of them are held accountable is when they eat their own for political advantage like Letitia James charging Cuomo with sex assault so she could become Governor.
The nursing home mass murders were totally ignored. Why? Because Cuomo was ordered to do that by Pelosi to up the death rate to make Trump look worse and James didn’t want that exposed. Remember right after the mass murder Cuomo was blaming Trump? All of it is ignored now.
Let them expense bail when arrested for embezzlement.
Booze, cruise, & fast food! The Post does it again!
What good is power if you’re not willing to exploit it? If you’re not kicking back to the people who got you the money, you’re prolly not going to last too long. That’s the issue with gubmint doling out cash. It perpetuates this type of incestual behaviors.
Government at its best, everyone trying to get their piece of of the pie.
They know the community they serve. Don’t people say that the homeless have trouble deferring gratification?
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