Straight Line of the Day: What Was Achieved By All the Spending on Covid: …

Audit Questions 80% of West Haven [Conn.}’s COVID Expenditures
Associated Press | April 1, 2022

A new forensic audit of more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funds spent by the city of West Haven indicates approximately 80% of the expenditures should not have been allowed. That doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of dollars a former state lawmaker and others are accused of stealing from the city.

The problematic expenditures – nearly $900,000 of about $1.13 million reviewed by the auditors – were largely ineligible expenses or lacked sufficient justification and documentation.

West Haven Mayor Nancy Rossi, a Democrat, said in a text message to The Associated Press that she had just received the report and still needed review it.

Straight Line of the Day: What was achieved by all the spending on Covid: …

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  1. Government expenditures are never about solving a real world problem. It’s about funneling money to favored- I was going to write “constituents,” but that isn’t even true, since illegal immigrants, NGO’s and foreign governments aren’t really constituents.

  2. 3 Indicted for Roles in Awarding COVID Outreach Contract
    Associated Press | April 11, 2022

    HOUSTON (AP) — Three people who have worked for the top elected official in Harris County were indicted on Monday after being accused by prosecutors of steering a nearly $11 million contract for COVID-19 vaccine outreach to a political consultant with ties to local Democratic officials.

    Alex Triantaphyllis, Aaron Dunn and Wallis Nader were each indicted on one count of misuse of official information and one count of tampering with a record, according to court records.

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