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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: formerlurker on September 16, 2010, 05:16:18 AM
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Vito Lopez-backed charity led by the clueless
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and DAVID SEIFMAN
Last Updated: 6:00 AM, September 16, 2010
Posted: 11:17 PM, September 15, 2010
The board of directors at a nonprofit with close ties to Brooklyn Democratic leader Vito Lopez — where his girlfriend and campaign manager were paid staggering salaries of nearly a million dollars combined — was so clueless that none could even identify the center’s programs, according to a bombshell report by the Department of Investigation.
City investigators determined that at least seven of the nine board members of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, a sprawling social services agency funded with $75 million in taxpayer money that has long served as Assemblyman Lopez’s power base, were figureheads who had no idea what contracts they were approving.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_combined_programs_dollars_wkxuNNbp0CG8xIh0IytwlO#ixzz0zgbfaKWO
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Sounds typical. And they say it's not about the money?!?! :whatever:
Douchebags! :bird: