Posts tagged with ‘News’

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Homeless Services paid out millions of dollars

January 29, 2010

The Department of Homeless Services (DHS) paid out millions of dollars ($152.7 million in FY08) to non-contracted service providers based on an “honor system” of unwritten agreements, invented rates and duplicate clients lists, according to an audit initiated under former Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. and just completed by Comptroller John C. Liu. “Who would [...]

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Wyclef gets $250,000 to perform at his own charity’s fundraiser

January 29, 2010

The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster’s wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the [...]

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$100 million to fight the Feds

October 3, 2009

A Jamaican immigrant of a Bronx address, Raymond Rodney, is appealing to the public for help. He claims that the New York Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has implanted a poisonous tracking device in his food to prevent him from pursuing a civil rights case that he brought against the Pittsburgh Federal Agency. Rodney claims [...]