Charity Begins at Democrat Rep Gregory Meeks' Home Little Accounting for $1.2M

Gregory “Missing Money” Meeks is back in the news!

I think this is the 4th or 5th story TLT has reported concerning Queens congressman Gregory Meeks who is currently under investigation for unaccounted for monies raised by a non-profit organization he founded to aide Hurricane Katrina victims.

Over $30,000 dollars was collected, but the cash never made its way to New Orleans where it was desperately needed.

Where’s the money, Greg?

However, the larger issue is not what happened to that money.

The mammoth question that I raise with my little blog is how Democrat politicians routinely use “non profits” to steal taxpayer money in broad daylight for bogus programs that never seem to help a great number of people. What you end up seeing is a few token faces for a photo-op, but the lion’s share of all that taxpayer money ends up somewhere else.

In my opinion, if you see a non-profit started by a Dem politico, take out your magnifying glass and call your local U.S. Attorney because most likely there’s some dirty dirty going on.

But, the New York Times and the Washington Post don’t seem to be interested in pursuing what I feel can be one of the biggest political rip-offs in U.S. history.

But, then again I’m a tiny blog.

From The New York:

A nonprofit founded by Rep. Gregory Meeks took in more than $1.2 million in taxpayer money over the past 15 years with little to no oversight as to how it was spent, The Post has found.

Meeks funneled pork-barrel money to the Rockaway Peninsula Civic Association as a state assemblyman in the 1990s. He incorporated the charity, which was once based at his parents' house in Far Rockaway, in 1983. It is the second suspicious nonprofit linked to the Queens Democrat.

The organization had grand plans for a comprehensive after-school program for "at risk" students, similar to the successful Jackie Robinson program in Brooklyn. But its David N. Dinkins Center for Physical Culture fizzled by 2005, leaving only a skeleton program for seniors
That program continued to receive city money until 2008, although it is not clear how it spent the cash since the association has no offices or staff. It supposedly organizes activities at a city-run community center, but purchases no materials.

Mildred Kenchen, 82, the lone senior at the program Friday morning, said about 12 members meet to do arts and crafts, knit or play games with occasional trips for lunch or to the movies.

Hilda Gross, the president of the association -- and a friend of Meeks' late mother -- usually shows up, but wasn't there Friday. Kenchen said the seniors have always paid their own way for big trips, saving up for out-of-town jaunts. "Each month we put so much aside," she said.

City Councilman James Sanders, who routinely sent money for the senior program, stopped the cash last year because the nonprofit's paperwork was in disarray, according to his office.

Payments to Rockaway Peninsula were criticized by the good-government group Change-NY in the 1990s as an example of a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the group escaped scrutiny by routinely refusing to file nonprofit reports.

The organization's tax filings from 1996 to 2001 were not filed until February 2003, a violation of charity laws. The documents were slipshod and handwritten, and did not fully detail how the taxpayer money it received was spent.

The returns for 1996, 1997 and 1998 make vague reference to the "acquisition" of a community-center site for the Dinkins program. But the headquarters for the program, which did its work in local schools, was the second floor of a dilapidated house on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway.

The group did not purchase the apartment, according to property records.

The organization spent just over $1.1 million on the Dinkins program from 1996 to 2005, according to its tax forms. But the forms lack details on who received salaries and stipends.

Joel Zuller, the Brooklyn accountant who prepared the form, did not respond to requests for comment.
Gross said she took no salary and when the city money stopped, the group funded itself.

"My work is done out of the goodness of my heart," she said.

Meeks refused to answer any questions about the charity Friday. Dinkins, whose name was used for the program but who does not appear to have been involved, did not return calls.
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This is Gregory Meeks at his Demagogueing best on the House floor while under investigation for missing Hurricane Katrina money


Via New York Post

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Missing Money Meeks' New Katrina Slap Robo-Calls to Katrina Victims

TLT will continue to report on Democrat Gregory Meeks and the missing money he raised for Hurricane Katrina victims that never made it to Louisiana.

The main stream media continues to ignore this scandal.

From the New York Post:

"Congressman Cao stood with the insurance companies and Republicans in Washington, instead of standing up for hardworking families he represents."

Residents are urged to call Cao -- whose district was among the worst hit by Katrina -- and "tell him to put your interests first."

Gregory Meeks promised to put Katrina victims' interests first when he outlined a plan to support 30 families after the August 2005 disaster, promising "every dime" raised by a special fund would go to them.

But The Post revealed that New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families, or NOAH-F, spent only a paltry amount on victims, despite bringing in more than $31,000.

A spokesman for Cao blasted the Meeks calls, which were paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"We find it odd that a New York politician who apparently never delivered the tens of thousands of dollars he said he collected for New Orleans Katrina victims now wants to tell New Orleans voters how to vote," said Taylor Henry.

Meeks has insisted he was not responsible for distributing the money raised through NOAH-F.

Gregory Meeks Changes Story on Missing Money

Via New York Post

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Democrat Gregory Meeks Changes Story on Missing Hurricane Katrina Money

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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