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Documents Available: Crowd Sourcing Call to Action on Refugee Resettlement Virginia
Virginia Free Citizen ^ | April 1, 2017 | Jeff Bayard

Posted on 04/02/2017 9:59:46 AM PDT by RightSideNews

Links to documents below, and this Virginia Free Citizen's last project as funding and resources have been exhausted. Virginia Free Citizen will cease operations on April 30th.

On November 2, 2016 the Virginia Office of Newcomer Services answered our FOIA request for information pertaining to the refugee resettlement program in Virginia for the fiscal years 2014, 2015 and 2016. Some of the documents received reflect fiscal periods previous to 2014 due to the renewal and/or modifications to earlier contracts.

The pre-election revelations from multiple Wikileaks releases showed everyone the power of “crowd sourcing” the analysis of large amounts of data in short order.

Secure Virginia (or Virginia Free Citizen Watch) has decided to leverage the knowledge and brain power of our members and readers to thoroughly analyze these documents.

So we are issuing a call to action for all activists and analysts to review, study and analyze the documents shown here.

All files are searchable by keyword so you can choose to view all files per fiscal year, per contractor, per program or per subject.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of abbreviation and acronyms used throughout the documents. We have also done our best to name the files in such a way that the content is easily identified.

For example:

For those unfamiliar with the appropriations process, we offer this short summary:

PROCESS DESCRIPTION – Appropriations from a Virginia agency follow a set process and pattern. Basically, the process proceeds as follows:

  1. RFP – Request For Proposal – the state agency requests bids to provide services for state sponsored programs
  2. PROPOSAL – those bidding for a state contract submits their proposals
  3. CONTRACT – the state agency’s signed contract with the service provider
  4. MOD – modification to an existing contract
  5. RENEWAL – extension of an existing contract beyond the original contract period
  6. REPORTING – quarterly, semi-annual and annual reports to the contracting state agency from the contractor are required
Please send your findings, analysis, observations and ideas to watch@virginiafreecitizens.com!

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY

FOIA – Freedom of Information Act Request

VDSS – Virginia Department of Social Services

ONS – Office of Newcomer Services (Virginia)PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

URM – Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

VRPH – Virginia Refugee Preventative Health Project

VRSAP – Virginia Refugee School Achievement Program

SOAR – Services for Older Adult Refugees

PEACE – Pathway to English and Civic EngagementREFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CONTRACTORS

CCC – Commonwealth Catholic Charities

CC of A – Catholic Charities of Arlington

IRC – International Rescue Committee

LSS – Lutheran Social Services

CWS – Church World Services

LINKED DOCUMENTS BELOW Here it a excerpt of the letter written by the concerned Virginia citizen for the documents for the purpose of providing transparency to citizens and legislatures here in Virginia, and the full letter can be viewed on the PDF linked here, with the identity of that citizen removed. FOIA to ONS VFC:

To: Ms. Katherine A. Cooper Director, Office of Newcomer Services Virginia Office of Newcomer Services / Virginia Department of Social Services 801 E. Main Street Richmond, VA 23219-2901

Dear Ms. Cooper:

I am making a request under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§2.2-3700, et seq.). Requests include the indicated reports listed below that the State of Virginia submits to the Office of Refugee Resettlement plus additional information and copies as listed.

I would like copies of the following records for the last two federal fiscal years October 1, 2014-Sept 30, 2016. The reports are listed by report name on the Division of Refugee Resettlement Assistance Reporting Schedule found on the US Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement located here.

The letter refers to the reporting calendar we discovered HERE: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr/dra_reporting_calendar_2016.pdf

REPLY LETTER AND ITEMIZED LIST OF DOCUMENTS

The following reply letter is from the scanned hard copy document and converted to a PDF and converted again to a TEXT file. Formatting and images are not identical to the original letter. The original letter and all original documents are available for review upon written request. Send requests by email to watch@virginiafreecitizen.com

LETTER TEXT BELOW: and LINK --> ONS Response to FOIA 2 Redacted

COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES November 2, 2016 Dear Mr. (REMOVED): In response to your October 17th Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, attached are the following documents.

  1. Annual Reports
  1. ORR-1 for cash assistance, medical assistance, and related administrative costs, including assistance and services to unaccompanied minors.
  2. ORR-6 Annual Service Plan
  3. Annual Outcome Goal Plan (GPRA)
  1. Quarterly Financial Reports
  1. ORR-2 Cash & Medical Assistance
  2. b. SF-425 Refugee Social Services
  3. SF-425 Targeted Assistance Formula
  4. Note: WF refers to Wilson Fish administered programs. Virginia is a state administered program.
  1. Semi-Annual Grant Reports
  1. School Impact Discretionary Semi-Annual Report
  2. SF-425 Assistance Discretionary
  1. Final Financial Reports
  1. ORR-2 Final Report, CMA
  2. b. SF-425 Final Report, RSS and TAG Formula
Note: The grant awards have not been fully expended. Per federal guidelines, a final report is not completed until the grant funding is liquidated.
  1. Additional requests
Note: The documents are sorted by contract type. Each packet has a cover sheet identifying the contents.

The Office of Newcomer Services does not hold regular meetings with Departments of Social Services. Training and technical assistance are provided to local departments of social services as needed.

The Office of Newcomer Services holds periodic meetings with the refugee resettlement agencies, community partners, and resettlement directors for a variety of purposes including contract negotiation, monitoring, training, technical assistance, and review of federal and state policies. Meetings with individual contractors are scheduled as needed.

Virginia Community Capacity Initiative Dialogue Group Meetings are local initiatives led by leaders in each community that resettles refugees.  

Sincerely,

Penelope Boyd

Program Consultant

Office of Newcomer Services


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: immigration; refugeeresettlement; syria; virginia

1 posted on 04/02/2017 9:59:46 AM PDT by RightSideNews
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To: RightSideNews

And...?


2 posted on 04/02/2017 10:11:10 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RightSideNews

All these resettlement groups make a LOT of money and as far as I can see....answer to no one.


3 posted on 04/02/2017 10:18:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ifinnegan

For starters, I’d think that some sort of crowd tracking of these ‘religious’ service organizations providing said services should be comprehensively tracked to assure value for the public dollar for one.

Secondly, the names, locations and other pertinent public data of these ‘refugees’ should be noted and tracked, and kept track of, frankly.

Lastly, we need to know just what kind of Muslim assistance refugee incursion programs are out there and what these people are doing where, when and with what (in terms of resources). Otherwise STOPPING this foolishness and self destructive behavior of our government (and by proxy, us) will be all the more difficult.

Ubama spent every second of his last in-power moments securing our destruction and with the help of his ilk did the best to hide it all as best they could. We need help to uncover and expose this treachery. I’m not saying this is the be all and end all, but it is a start in the stream of newfound consciousness. Thanks!


4 posted on 04/02/2017 10:18:18 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: RightSideNews

Bookmark for later


5 posted on 04/02/2017 10:23:53 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Gaffer
...... some sort of crowd tracking of these non-profit ‘religious’ organizations providing resettlement services should be comprehensively tracked to assure value for our tax dollars financing this activity.....

No question.

The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how resettlement monies changes hands; to determine the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals, who might be personally profiting and if financing terrorism is being facilitated.

<><> L/E needs to examine resettlement agency (R/A) bank accounts.

<><> Joint R/A bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into R/A accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing migrants from terrorist countries.

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NOTE WELL Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering and other financial crimes and financing terrorism. “The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.

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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of R/A checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.

L/E should also explore (a) monies R/A paid to brokers, sub- brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize SPLC bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;

Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support and luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts from luxury outlets.

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Contact President Trump's web site. www.greatagain.gov/

EMAIL SEC--enforcement@sec.gov

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CALL CONGRESS---http://www.contactingthecongress.org/

DEMAND CONGRESS MOBILIZE THESE AGENCIES AT ONCE:

<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section

6 posted on 04/02/2017 10:34:15 AM PDT by Liz
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To: GOPJ; sickoflibs; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; Jane Long; no-to-illegals; stephenjohnbanker; ...

ping


7 posted on 04/02/2017 10:35:58 AM PDT by Liz
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To: All

It is also possible that these non-profit resettlement agencies committed other federal offenses including, but not limited to:

<><> Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government (involves several felonies and could include forgery);

<><> 18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civiland/or criminal RICO violations.

<><> 18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)18 U.S.C. §1001 (making false Statements to Agents of the US Government),

<><> 18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracies Against Civil Rights).

<><> Possibly full investigations crentering on RICO conspiracies under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) could be warranted because (1) the persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerce and that (4) the persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a “pattern”

(6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the taxpayers were injured by reason of the “pattern” of racketeering activity.

<><> Alleged Offenses could include Violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.

Taxpayers demand investigation by the following agencies commence at once:

<><> FBI — Wire Fraud Division

<><> IRS-Fraud Unit

<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,

<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.

<><> DOJ’s Criminal Division— Public Integrity Section

<><> DOJ Criminal Division—Organized Crime and Gang Section.


CONTACTS

FBI TIP PAGE-—https://tips.fbi.gov

CONGRESS: Capitol Switchboard 1-866-220-0044

President Trump’s web site. www.greatagain.gov/


8 posted on 04/02/2017 10:44:34 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz; RightSideNews

I am SOOOOO sick of my tax $$ paying for this cr@p.

How many months of free housing have I paid for?

How many hours of free education have I paid for?

How much medical treatment have I paid for?

How many groceries have I paid for?

How much free internet have I paid for?

How many 0zikaPhones have I paid for....

....for these (primarily) men between the ages of 16 - 25, ‘refugees’???????


9 posted on 04/02/2017 10:47:23 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Liz

Church World Service announced yesterday that it is launching anti-Trump campaign (to raise $$$)
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/church-world-service-announced-yesterday-that-it-is-launching-anti-trump-campaign-to-raise/
Is your denomination one of 37 that will be holding demonstrations and lobbying Congress?
It is called the #GreaterAs1 campaign. (Just my personal opinion, but I sure wouldn’t run my whole campaign around a hashtag, see what happened at #ThisIsARefugee!)
[ ]
The order has been divisive among faith groups. But on Friday a number of Orthodox and mainline Protestant churches announced a grassroots effort to fight any version of the ban.
[….]
The campaign also hopes to raise $1 million over the next six months to help refugees. [They have salaries to pay!—ed]
It was announced through the National Council of Churches and Church World Service, a group that helps settle refugees.
You can go here and see what the campaign will do.
https://greateras1.org/churches-launch-national-refugee-campaign/

more at the link including a list of denominations involved.

https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/03/04/church-world-service-announced-yesterday-that-it-is-launching-anti-trump-campaign-to-raise/


10 posted on 04/02/2017 10:56:23 AM PDT by Whenifhow (when, if and how will Obama be gone?)
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To: Liz; AuntB; La Lydia; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

PING


11 posted on 04/02/2017 11:17:24 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Sacajaweau

And to top it off, they filed suit against Trump’s EO on lowering the refugees to 50,000 because it would cause them financial harm.


12 posted on 04/02/2017 11:19:30 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Jane Long

You paid plenty........b/c the “needy refugees” are pocketing under several different identities.


13 posted on 04/02/2017 11:47:21 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Jane Long

Not only have we been paying for “them”, we are literally a slave of theirs for a time while they get to destroy the time you have with raising and caring for your own children, which is the endgame-—to get both parents into the workplace, controlled and taxed by the state, so the State can also get complete Mind Control over your children at young and vulnerable ages so they will corrupt them, force in unnatural, artificial realities so Slavery is Freedom and boys are girls, so our children will be made into ignorant slaves of their System for life. (like we are now).

We need to quite working for the system (actually blow up their systems of control (edukation)—and take back the minds of our own children and give them the tools to be critical thinkers and free. (Classical Christian curricula only).


14 posted on 04/02/2017 11:59:03 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Gaffer

Well said.


15 posted on 04/02/2017 2:14:49 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Liz

Thanks for ping. Will take a look at it.


16 posted on 04/02/2017 2:41:21 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76

Great to have you onboard.

Several action projects posted for your edification, as well.


17 posted on 04/02/2017 4:02:31 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Gaffer

I couldn’t agree more with ever word you wrote...especially keeping track of these “refugees” someone (s) must be in touch with the emigre at all times...in other words, someone must bear the responsibility for the foreigner 24/7 just as you would a child.


18 posted on 04/03/2017 8:27:45 AM PDT by yoe
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