In this latest episode of funny money, Democrats, and non-profits, Gregory Meeks, a member of the Congressional Back Caucus, started a non profit to raise money for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Sounds like a noble effort, right?
However, the money that was collected through a non-profit group created by Meeks, never made it to Louisiana or the families.
So, now people want to know what happened to the money that Gregory Meeks and fellow Dem pol, Malcolm Smith raised.
Taka a good guess!
The New York Post reports:
First, Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks claimed that "every dime" raised by a charity he co-founded would go to 30 impoverished families who lost their homes and all their possessions in Hurricane Katrina.
But now -- as those victims say they never got a dime -- Meeks is suddenly insisting that the charity focused on Big Easy transplants who relocated to a hotel in his district after the killer storm.
A Post probe, however, found scant evidence that New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families (NOAH-F) did much of anything at the Radisson Hotel in Queens, which housed roughly 200 Katrina evacuees for months. The group raised at least $31,000 but, according to tax records, doled out only $1,392.
One organizer of the Radisson effort, the Rev. James Pullings, never even heard of NOAH-F.
And Mindy Carpenter, a former Red Cross worker who worked there for months, remembers the charity's name but can't recall anything it did.
Several evacuees interviewed by The Post said they never got anything from NOAH-F, which Meeks founded with state Sen. Malcolm Smith.
"I never heard of the group," said Pullings, a Queens clergyman described by victims and other relief workers as the leader in organizing assistance efforts at the Radisson.
"I was there from September until April or May. I was there almost every day," Pullings said in a phone interview from Haiti, where he is helping earthquake victims. "I basically knew who gave what to the people."
What NOAH-F did to help those victims is a mystery.
None of the Radisson residents interviewed by The Post had heard of NOAH-F -- or remembered getting any aid from the group.
"I never heard of it," said Katrina victim Leon Paredes, who stayed at the Radisson for about five months. "I remember the ones who helped us out. They're hard to forget."
Paredes -- who was living in Gulfport, Miss., when the storm hit -- said he found it "suspicious" that NOAH-F doled out only a fraction of what it raised.
"People were being ripped off left and right," Parades told The Post from his home in Mobile, Ala. "There was so much corruption going on around that hotel."
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As previously reported by TLT, Democrats love to use non profits group steal, and launder money from taxpayers. It’s the biggest scandal the legacy media purposely does not report.
Why do you think Democrats said “No” to ban non-profit earmarks?
Because its their major cash cow!
Via New York Post
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