AG Tish James fixates on political enemies, – Latest News
While native “charities” with insider pull overtly steal tens of millions from New York’s taxpayers, Attorney General Letitia James crusades with most malice towards a tiny, defunct non-profit in . . . West Virginia, of all locations.
VDare, an obscure anti-immigration web site, moved out of state long in the past, however was based a long time in the past in New York; that was enough to let James focus her workplace’s efforts on wanting into its obvious use of donor money to buy a headquarters within the Mountain State city of Berkeley Springs that doubles as a home for its founder.
For causes identified solely to Tish James and God, she has pursued a vendetta towards this obscure rightwing weblog for years: The press release saying her newest lawsuit towards VDare lists 5 part chiefs, assistant attorneys basic and workers as working on this case.
Meanwhile, politically juiced “service providers” actually lively in New York preserve fats authorities contracts price a whole lot of tens of millions a 12 months, although their corruption and different insider profiteering have been public, documented data for years.
The profiteers are strong members of the native Democratic elite, so in the case of investigating, not to mention prosecuting, any of them, it’s radio silence from the AG: no press releases, no lawsuits — nothing.
The metropolis’s Department of Investigation particulars a long-standing sample of self-dealing, extreme funds, nepotism and different blatant irregularities and flat-out illegality within the metropolis’s multibillion-dollar homeless-industrial complicated.
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SEBCO, a “nonprofit” shelter supplier, employed a for-profit company to supply security companies. Surprise: SEBCO owned the security company, selected it by way of a non-competitive course of and paid its own executives a whole lot of hundreds of {dollars} in wage.
The husband of a SEBCO government is affiliated with 4 of its for-profit subcontractors, offering a vary of companies from extermination to upkeep and cleansing.
Acacia Network, one other homeless-shelter operator with a dodgy security report, pays its high government close to a million {dollars} in yearly whole compensation, a determine the charity says is “reasonable” . . . in line with a advisor it employed.
Before lastly dropping its metropolis contracts, CORE Services raked in a whole lot of tens of millions of taxpayer {dollars} to shelter the homeless; it, too, employed its own for-profit subsidiaries to supply security, food, and so forth., paying the execs in fat-six-figure quantities.
The DOI discovered related scams going on throughout dozens of homeless companies suppliers; the feds have prosecuted a few of the insiders and despatched them to jail, whereas AG James devotes her assets to ideological lawfare.
VDare could have misallocated some of its meager contributions, however it by no means obtained a dime from the taxpayers: All its donors are non-public people.
New York social-service nonprofits, in the meantime, are constructed completely round leeching taxpayer money and enriching and/or empowering their own management.
James is a genius at chasing headlines as she prosecutes her ideological enemies, however an utter failure at policing the “charities” that rob New Yorkers blind.
