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The Big Apple erupted in bloody chaos overnight as rowdy mobs celebrating the Knicks’ NBA title trashed NYPD cars and torched FIFA buses in Times Square, leaving 10 cops hurt and 63 people in handcuffs.
At least 15 suspects were hit with criminal charges — while a 17-year-old boy also was shot in the foot and four people were stabbed — during the mayhem, the NYPD said.
“The vast majority of New Yorkers celebrated appropriately. There were some who did not,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Sunday.
The Trump administration has barred Los Angeles County’s main homelessness agency from accessing federal funds while it investigates the agency’s alleged “wanton mismanagement of public funds.”
The move puts at risk almost $200 million that LA area service providers count on to help California’s largest homeless population.
In a letter Thursday to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused the LA agency of fraud, while also blaming it for failing to decrease homelessness. The agency failed to record when people left their motel housing, misused government money by using it to pay for services provided under another contract and could not provide documents to prove the existence of homes it was responsible for, according to HUD. The LA agency is suspended from participating in federal funding competitions until HUD’s Office of Inspector General completes its investigation.
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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is a joint city-count agency that has spearheaded the LA-area’s fight against homelessness since the 1990s. It has faced a myriad of issues recently, resulting even in local officials pulling their confidence – and their money – from the agency. After two critical audits found the Homeless Services Authority wasn’t properly tracking its spending or outcomes, the LA County Board of Supervisors withdrew its money and moved it to a newly created county agency. The head of the beleaguered Homeless Services Authority, who had been criticized for signing contracts with a nonprofit tied to her husband, resigned. In April, the authority laid off 284 people.
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Tear Down That Tarp!
Tear Down That Tarp!
with meth and 'roids?
MineralMan (151,892) Posts
Tear Down That Tarp!
Tear Down That Tarp!
Its The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
That's the name of that building. Donald J. Trump's name never belonged there . Now Tear Down That Tarp!
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