Mayor: potential fraud in spending of COVID relief funds

The Associated Press ^ | October 11, 2021

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut mayor has asked for a forensic investigation into the city’s spending of federal pandemic relief money after coming across issues she says make her suspect fraud.

West Haven Mayor Nancy Rossi, who is also a certified public accountant, said in a video posted on the city’s YouTube page that she came across several large expenditures that might be fraudulent.

Charles Grady, a spokesman for the FBI in New Haven, told Hearst Connecticut Media that agents visited City Hall on Friday, but would not confirm whether an investigation was underway.

The federal pandemic relief money is supposed to be used to help with the public health response and support the economic recovery from the pandemic.

West Haven’s share of the $2.2 trillion in stimulus funding from the CARES Act has been more than $1.15 million so far, according to the state Office of Policy and Management.

Rossi said she had spoken to the city’s independent public accounting firm, “which, after its review, agreed that some transactions are suspicious.

“I assure all of our residents that if the investigation proves any wrongdoing, and fraudulent activity, I will demand anyone involved be held accountable and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Rossi said. If anyone is found guilty they should go right to jail.”

Rossi said investigators have asked her not to divulge the details of her suspicions or say whether any city employees have been suspended or face other discipline.

[rktman]

Should this be “BREAKING!”? 😊🙌

[dsrtsage]

Shocked! Shocked I tell you. Obviously Biden voters

[rockabyebaby]

Why is everything a secret? If city employees are involved and are suspended why not let the public, you know, the ones who pay their damn salaries, why can’t the public know?

[JennysCool]

“I assure all of our residents that if the investigation proves any wrongdoing, and fraudulent activity, I will demand anyone involved be held accountable and be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Rossi said.

Unless they are well-connected Democrats.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Most of the Fauci/China virus bailout money went to fraud.
Just as planned.

[Bell Bouy II]

Sure there are more. Why stop in W Haven move down the line to Bridgeport and then up to Waterbury and over to Hartford.

[day10]

[Paul46360]

perfect

[Paul46360]

MEANWHILE..
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — The state of Vermont is hoping to use $5 million in COVID-19 relief funds to help buy out and move mobile homes in areas at risk of flooding. The plan builds on lessons learned during flooding from Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, and aims to assist mobile home residents with finding a new place to live if they accept the buyout, said Vermont Emergency Management Hazard Mitigation Officer Stephanie Smith. The task is made more complicated because many mobile home residents own their homes, but rent the land where they are located. Many older homes can’t be moved, and the federal buyout program often doesn’t completely cover the full cost of moving. Vermont has wide discretion over how it spends the more that $2.7 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funding it’s expected to receive.

[Sequoyah101]

Oh really? I sure didn’t expect that.

/s

[Raycpa]

As a CPA, it is drilled in us that we do not use the term fraud lightly.

[A Navy Vet]

"Most of the Fauci/China virus bailout money went to fraud."

As did most of the Obambi/Congressional infrastructure money years back. What happened to all those "shovel ready" projects?

The dem/soci/commies have the shell game down to a science. The stupid Repubs just go along to get along and not look like they're killing children or throwing grandma over a cliff. Repubs are mostly cowards who don't know how to fight.

Biggest example: Repubs had the House, Senate, and WH and still couldn't repeal ObambiLousiCare. I'll never forgive them for that one.

[SunkenCiv]

• Art gallery featuring Hunter Biden paintings received massive Covid loan
• Vermont to use COVID money to move vulnerable mobile homes
• COVID Vaccine Mandaters Should Be Criminally Culpable For All Vaccine-Related Injuries

[Organic Panic]

NO WAY!!! Fraud with trillions of free money???

[Lurkinanloomin]

Refusing to fund a border wall when we finally elected a President who would secure the border is also unforgivable.

[BillyBonebrake]

Nothing much good about West Haven except Zuppardi’s Pizza.