New York State warlords politicians have been caught taking charitable contributions, meant to help minorities get higher education, and spending it on limos, food and rap concerts.
The caucus of black New York state lawmakers run a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in years, according to a New York Post investigation.
The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable, and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”
The politicians refused to divulge the charity’s 2017 tax filing to the Post despite federal requirements that charities do so upon request.
The charity’s treasurer, Assemblyman Gary Pretlow of Westchester, expressed no knowledge of the charity’s activities.
“I just sign the checks they give me,” he said.
State. Sen. Leroy Comrie of Queens, the group’s number two, refused to come out when Post reporter Isabel Vincent stopped by his office.
Its chairman, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker of Brooklyn, claimed to have no knowledge of the charity’s failure to fulfill its mission.
The charity gave $36,000 of its $565,000 in revenue to scholarships in 2015. That year, it spent $85,000 on a concert with Eric Benet and Regina Belle, and $157,000 on food, according to the Times-Union’s analysis of its tax filings.
In 2017, its annual event featured the rap artist Big Daddy Kane.
There has been no money used for scholarships in the past two years…
I chuckle every time I see some well meaning, but ignorant, black person use the hashtag #blacklivesmatter.
Sorry. It just isn’t true. You just sound stupid if you think blacks are all weepy and clasping hands with each other, worrying about a stranger’s well-being.
All we hear about is the wealth distribution gap between the races, and when a charity is set up to mitigate this disparity the money is stolen by black leaders.
Can it get any more despicable?
Coulda knocked me over with a feather. Whoda ever thunk that would happen?
“The charity’s treasurer, Assemblyman Gary Pretlow of Westchester, expressed no knowledge of the charity’s activities.
“I just sign the checks they give me,” he said.”
In the REAL world, how long would you get away with THAT?
More black privilege. Because of their race, they are untouchable.
Sharpton and Jackson have been running this kind of racket for years and use white guilt like a crowbar on
any liberal who falls for it. Fools.
Of course I’m the racist doing the stereotyping.
Democrats can do whatever they want, thanks to republicans.
Ex-Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-Jacksonville) got 5 Years For a scholarship charity scam last year:
“The congresswoman’s longtime chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons, 51, of Laurel, Md., and the charity’s president, Carla Wiley, 55, of Leesburg, Va., also will see prison time, sentenced to four years and 21 months, respectively. They each pleaded guilty to their roles in the education charity scheme in February and March 2016, respectively.
Between late 2012 and early 2016, the trio participated in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving One Door for Education – Amy Anderson Scholarship. They and others acting on their behalf solicited more than $800,000 in charitable donations based on false representations that donations would be used for college scholarships and school computer drives, among other charitable causes.”
probably just a coincidence…
Why are you racists so down on the black man for every little thing? That’s just their culture, given them by the God Mother. Some guy named Jesus supposedly said judge not in some book somewhere, I think, so quit judging.
Social ‘just us’ warriors.
democRATs … about as trustworthy as a fart after a ten day Mexican vacation!
Yep, leftists = corruption.
See this:
https://theblacksphere.net/2018/12/perhaps-the-least-known-conspirator-against-trump/
Anybody surprised by this aint been payin’ ‘tention.
Get me mine is a consistent part of Black culture, get me mine from pay to play white liberals makes it that much sweeter. Race hustling and graft is an accepted practice. Just ask all the Reverands….God forbid any single one of them would use a slush fund to actually help their own.
Same thing happened here in Galveston County
except it was the school board doing it with
my tax $$$ then they blame whitey when little
Jamal can’t read or write.Black people are
black peoples worse enemy. Look at Africa for
goodness sakes…
“Dem Pol’s Charity Org Uses Money for Themselves”
Am I supposed to be surprised?
Where are the cops and the IRS? Where are the voters? Time to get some green jackets.