Youth funds diverted to liberal radio station.. (What else..ERR AMERICA)

Gotham, Community Gazette for District 12 ^ | July 5, 2005 | Michael Horowitz

[carlo3b]

Youth funds diverted to liberal radio station

by Michael Horowitz
July 5, 2005
Bronx News
The Bronx News has learned, through informed sources, that the diversion of hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in Co-op City to the liberal Air America Radio is at the center of the city’s probe of corruption at the local club.
The money, which was reportedly paid to Air America as a loan, was supposed to be paid back with interest, two unidentified informed sources told the News. One source added that Air America officials, led by an official of the Gloria Wise Club, agreed to help the local club by publicizing its activities.

To date, no indictments have been handed down in the New York City Department of Investigation’s ongoing probe of the Gloria Wise Club’s reported transfer of funds to Air America.

Most of the Gloria Wise Club’s programs are for the Co-op City community, but the club also runs after-school programs in the Baychester/Edenwald and Soundview areas.

At the center of the investigation, in addition to Charles Rosen, the charismatic leader of the local club for the last 15 years, is Evan Cohen, who resigned, under fire, as chairman of Air America Radio shortly after its start as an alternative to conservative talk radio.

Cohen, at the time the alleged transfers of funds from the Gloria Wise Club to Air America took place, was also the director of Development for the local boys’ and girls’ club, the News has learned.

One source told the News that $480,000 in funds from the Gloria Wise Club is involved in the city’s investigation of illegal transfer of funds from the local club.

A second unidentified source stressed that Rosen never sought to profit personally from the reported loan that the Gloria Wise Club gave to Air America. The source emphasized that Rosen’s sole motive, even if it was a bit naïve, was to benefit the Gloria Wise Club with the interest that Air America would pay for its loan from the local club.

The city’s DOI is pursuing the probe because the Gloria Wise Club depends heavily on city funding for its operations. These funds are subject to extensive audits, as are funds received through the state and federal governments.

The Co-op City-based club, which Rosen has built into an empire in the Co-op City community, reportedly has 19 contracts and at least one grant with the city, worth a total of $9.7 million.

Over the last year, Rep. Joseph Crowley has secured two major federal grants for the Gloria Wise Club, one for a day-care program for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers and the other for the community’s NORC program for senior citizens. The grant for the program for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers was for $250,000, while the grant for the NORC program was for $99,410.

In 2003, Crowley secured a $218,500 grant for a mentoring program that the Gloria Wise Club runs.

Cohen, who is reportedly at the center of the Gloria Wise probe, is a Guam-based investors who was reportedly a key principal in the start-up of Air America, which has been billed as the liberals’ answer to conservative talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Shaun Hannity, Bob Grant, Michael Savage, and G. Gordon Liddy.

[carlo3b]

AirHeads AMERICA, can't cut the mustard.. so they steal from old ladies and children.. someone must be proud! Yikes

[PRND21]

Rove and Scooter did it...and Bush is an idiot.

[carlo3b]

Liberal Scum.. lets have liberal far and balance..cheat kids and seniors..

[RandallFlagg]

AIR AMERICA: STEALING FROM POOR KIDS?!

[pcottraux]

Well, where else could they get the money? It's not like they have any listeners.

[Brad's Gramma]

What a bunch of low life dweebs.

[RandallFlagg]

Hmmmm. I wonder what Rush Limbaugh's going to talk about on his next show.

Hmmmmmmmmm.....

[martin_fierro]

A sure bet to be on tomorrow's Grapevine.

[RandallFlagg]

Yep. WE have the power to change the course of political history. Once the FReepers are unleashed upon a focused task, the target is quickly vanquished. And the nation is stronger.

[Mo1]

Remember the stories of how they couldn't pay their bills when the station first started up??

Hmmmmmmm

[ApplegateRanch]

But...but...Yeah, I got it! It IS for the cheeeldren! Yeah, that's the ticket; the cheeeeldren benefit by hearing The Truth, which only happens if we stay on the air! Heh-heh, that'll hold'em until we can think up a better alibi.

[BradyLS]

At best: diverting funds to Err America to brainwash impressionable minds with more mush.

At worst: A scheme to skim interest from illegal loans to float a floundering network.

Hey, Al! Hey Randi! Hey Jenean! When are you clown-fishes gonna give this up???

[mondonico]

Bump

[Fresh Wind]

Hmmmm. I wonder what Rush Limbaugh's going to talk about on his next show.

If it's on FR in the morning, it will be on Rush in the afternoon.

[anniegetyourgun]

Odd...I don't see Spitzer all over this one.....

[Lockbar]

Didn't Jimmy Hoffa go to prison for lending the mob cash from the teamster's pension fund?

[Jackknife]

"How does this affect MEEEEE.......Al --- Dumbass --- Franken?"

[denydenydeny]

To date, no indictments have been handed down in the New York City Department of Investigation’s ongoing probe of the Gloria Wise Club’s reported transfer of funds to Air America.

There had better be. Skimming taxpayer dollars to fund a private radio network? Frog-marching is in order.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post

Yep. WE have the power to change the course of political history. Once the FReepers are unleashed upon a focused task, the target is quickly vanquished. And the nation is stronger.

bump

[OldFriend]

Once again, the left takes from the poor to give to the elites who feel entitled to the hard earned dollars of others.

[prairiebreeze]

I just got this on an email, did a FR search and of course FReepers are already right on top of the story.

It would be mildly funny (ironically speaking) if it wasn't stealing from people who need the resources. I think I'll send this out to my email list.

[Straight Vermonter]

Are we going to see RICO charges against Stuart Smalley?

[prairiebreeze]

BTW, What did Al Franken know and When did he know it?!

;^P

[Peach]

Unbelievable. Someone is going to have to tell me how liberals get elected to anything, ever in this country. Because the behavior of most liberals, including these Air America people, is just aberrant.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[aculeus]

To complain is human.

To bump is divine.

[GOPJ]

Do you think the MSM will be outraged? Or will they say "everyone steals from children", time to "move on".

Would this be a big story if Rush was stealing from children? Can someone at the New York Times tell me the ethical difference between a liberal stealing money from kids and a conservative doing it? Because I damn sure will bet the farm that the New York Times would cover this big time if Rush had done this...

At worst: A scheme to skim interest from illegal loans to float a floundering network.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[mplsconservative]

Great find!

Thanks for posting this! It's going out to everyone I know.

Libs just can't do anything without cheating....Grrrrrrr.

[Grampa Dave]

It's GW's and Rove's fault. So many of the big time donors to the rats went to jail like Martha did. Their rat donations went to legal fees, and their income flow was devasted.

We "ain't" seen nothing yet. The split of the labor unions will result in less union thug money for the rats.

The rats become more dependent on George $oreA$$'s money each day. Each day $oreA$$'s buys more control of the Rats.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe it is an effort to secure funds for Her Heinous' "Clinton Youth"..

[bertmerc1]

This organization is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity and is required to file an IRS Form 990 (Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax). To view these documents go to www.guidestar.org. Unfortunately, the latest return is for fiscal year ending 6/30/2003 and may predate this corruption.

[mware]

I don't know about Spitzer but I bet Neil Cavuto is all over this today.

[kitkat]

SHAUN Hannity?

[demkicker]

Rush is out until next week. In fact, there's another thread speculating that because Dagyn (from CNN) is also out, they may be off getting hitched!

[Fresh Wind]

What about the "Rush is gay" rumor?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Outrageous!

[rpm818]

What's the difference between Air America and NPR? Answer? Not much, both are liberal radio programs that use federal funds to survive. I'm sure when push comes to shove the liberals and democrats will claim it's Air America's right to receive federal funds in order to balance right wing radio. New York Senator Hillary Clinton will find a way to federally fund Air America legally. She has big plans take back the money people received from the Bush tax cut, which she believes mainly benefited the rich and, that money really belongs to the government where she will spend it smarter.