Federal HIV/AIDS Money Spent On Opening Strip Club

[Bluebear]

No prosecution though....the DOJ is busy trying Roger Clemens and medical marijuana clinics.

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The city that let a councilman blow $300,000 in youth sports funds on personal travel and a luxury sports utility vehicle has spent federal AIDS prevention money on a strip club.

It gets better. The AIDS money—around $330,000—that helped transform a rundown warehouse into a nude bar went to a nonprofit operated by a self-described drug kingpin (Cornell Jones) with felony convictions. The group (Miracle Hands) was supposed to make the facility a job training center for residents with HIV and AIDS.

Only in the District of Columbia is this sort of outrageous corruption so commonly seen. D.C.’s perpetually crooked government has made national headlines over the years but this seems to be the icing on the cake. City officials actually passed along federal tax dollars to a shady character that turned around and used it to build a profitable business for himself. In this case an upscale “gentlemen’s club” with “five-star dining” and lots of nude dancers.

Here’s another interesting tidbit; when the director (Debra Rowe) of D.C.’s HIV/AIDS administration, which distributes Uncle Sam’s generous contributions to local groups, got fired after a probe revealed funds were misspent she became an executive director at Miracle Hands. That’s because she’s tight with the “reformed” drug lord who has benefitted from her generous allocations.

Incredibly, no one is being criminally charged in this brazen scheme.

http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/09/01/federal-aids-money-spent-on-strip-club/

[SixthSense]

1. this is why we can't have nice things

always someone gotta ruin it for everybody

[Suich]

4. LOL! Too true!

Welcome to DU, SixthSense!

:party:

[Angry Dragon]

2. All those politicians have to have some place to go

after a hard week of doing nothing
and it makes a good place to fund-raise

[Mimosa]

3. Oh, this could happen in Clayton County GA or even NOLA...possibly

The problem is insufficient oversight and/or corruption. Not enough checks and balances.

Millions go missing each year from school district funds, for instance. In NOLA , before Katrina, sometimes 25 mil annually would 'disappear' while schools went without vital systems being repaired. And there weren't prosecutions, either, sad to say.

[myrna minx]

5. K&R - that's awful and outrageous. .K&R

[xchrom]

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