Posted on 11/23/2022 4:55:52 AM PST by TigerClaws
JACKSON, Miss. — The Jackson City Council voted Tuesday to investigate $1 million in missing COVID-19 funds.
Ward 3 City Councilman Kenneth Stokes called for the investigation surrounding what he said was the termination of former constituent services manager Keyshia Sanders and allegations that the $1 million in COVID-19 funds are missing.
"We need to find out what happened. If she didn't have anything to do with the money missing, then let her come back," Stokes said.
Stokes said if they don't get to the bottom of what happened to the money, the council could be held liable.
Before a unanimous vote approving Stokes' resolution, council members were surprised to learn from the City Attorney's Office that more than a year ago, they passed a similar order to investigate the matter. The results of the $10,000 internal investigation conducted by Phelps Dunbar Law Firm were inconclusive.
"What we're going to do first is get the paperwork from Phelps Dunbar. We should have what I will call a paper trail as to the people we need to talk to," Stokes said.
City leaders previously said the Jackson Police Department and Hinds County District Attorney's Office were investigating the missing money.
"I mean, there certainly is reason, I think, to investigate it again and just find out where we are and what's going on," said Ward 7 Councilwoman Virgi Lindsay.
The mayor's office told the council the state auditor's office is investigating.
Check in Brett Favre’s couch cushions.
From another source:
https://www.wlbt.com/2022/11/23/city-council-approves-investigations-into-misappropriated-covid-money-jmaa-airport-board/
Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth Stokes said he still has questions more than a year after the city terminated Constituent Services Manager Keyshia Sanders for her role in making sure more than a million in federal tax dollars went to a Florence company for COVID-19 cleaning services.
At the time, Stokes was the only council member who asked anything about how the money was being spent.
Sounds like Stokes was the only council member who didn’t get a cut of that million dollars.
Stokes has been there forever, since I was a kid. there is no way he didn’t get a cut.
And this article is about the 2022 federal COVID funds.
In 2021 it looks like they spent the 2021 federal COVID funds on the City’s convention complex. Obviously it had nothing to do with COVID except that it may have closed because of less people using the facility.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/08/04/jackson-convention-complex-pandemic-funds/5467472001/
The Jackson City Council on Tuesday approved over a half million dollars to prop up the city’s convention complex after a warning from the mayor’s office that it would be forced to close without it.
The $570,000 allocation comes from federal coronavirus funds and will be used to cover utilities and other expenses for the remaining fiscal year, which ends Oct. 1.
Check Kenny Stokes’pocket
It was a gift. It’s always a gift. Leave her alone.
Reparations....
Wanna bet it went to ballot harvesting operations...
(hint, hint...)
The investigation will go as far as the one into BLMs missing millions - as the “leaders” bought luxury homes for themselves. IOW, nowhere.
Investigating missing money in these cases is the epitome of racism.
Well...we know $100,000 went to The Big Guy.
The money went into peoples pockets....follow the money.
remember the Louisiana Dem congressman who had $90,000 in cash in his freezer? I say we start by opening every politicians freezer.
California blew billions in “covid funds”
Does that thing come with an elevator?
Ladder?
Hos all dressed up can’t navigate that thing.
Just sayin
5.56mm
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