Posted on 07/28/2005 9:49:40 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Did Al Franken's liberal radio network Air America divert city money for the elderly and inner-city children to itself? That's the question people should be asking this week after the revelation that the New York Department of Investigation is looking into whether hundreds of thousands of dollars were illegally transferred from a Bronx community center to Air America.
Only a community paper and a few Internet bloggers seem interested in what could be an egregious case of illegal funneling of tax dollars to a private, partisan organization.
In late June, city officials designated the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club, a nonprofit organization that runs mentoring programs for children and day care for Alzheimer's patients, a "non-responsible city contractor." Investigators found "significant inappropriate transactions and falsified documents that were submitted to various City agencies." The city subsequently suspended the club's contracts, which run well into the millions.
It turns out, according to sources quoted anonymously by the Bronx News, that the mishandled money went to Air America. One source claims that $480,000 was wrongly transferred. The city investigation is concentrating on Charles Rosen, the club's president for 15 years, and Evan Cohen, the development director, who is a former chairman of Air America. Mr. Cohen resigned from Air America in May after the network's leasing plans in Chicago, San Francisco and elsewhere fell through.
Most of the mainstream newspapers have ignored this story. We only found out about it through the reporting of Brian Maloney, who pieced a story together on his blog "The Radio Equalizer" which was picked up by syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin.
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..Good Points...but, they'll still be bitchin' about the GOP.
Folks, imagine life without the Internet or modern talk radio on hundreds of stations.
No cable either. Just the three network TV's "news."
Cities were becoming more and more one-newspaper towns starting the second half of last century.
I remember. Looking for sources to find the spiked stories and to find the rest of the covered stories was not easy.
Don't ever let 'em take it away from us. Liberals harassed and threatened the licenses of many radio station owner who dared permit conservative opinion throughout the 1960s and 70s.
Gone is the "Fairness Dcotrine" but now a new tactic. A court in Seattle ruled that opinion on talk radio is "political contributions." The station, KVI, must calculate the value and report it. Many (most?) campaigns have limits on amounts which are permitted. End of talk radio?
No. Maybe the end of some courts, though.
Right..
And repubicans WON'T cut their funding..
The GOP has controlled Congress for how long now?? 1994 ring a bell?? How much smaller is the federal budget now?? ha!
They probably didn't get enough donations because nobody was allowed to bash Bush. Geldof put out the word prior to the concert. The hard lefties probably were not happy.
Is that Eakers Crapper ?
Too Kewl !...Well done GR !
Ok, that's just creepy.
Exactly.. remember on FR when the RINOs were saying just wait until we get a republican congress and republican President.?...
Some fell for it then.. and are STILL FALLING for it..
Rinos really are not very smart..
Thank God for Ann Coulter the leanest meanest RINO exposer of all time..
Course many current FR Rinos have learned to keep their yaps shut..
When she chimes in.. Some(me) are just waiting to out them AGAIN...
The girl has some kind of power over them.. LoL..
Meanwhile the Demo-Stalinist 60 something cootieboy
Robert ima REDford, is financing Fart Americas
diahrea, on his Scundunce Flem Channel, 3 times a day.
Well, I'll tell you, Glock, I've NEVER seen a lock like that on an ....... outhouse.
:)
You're suggesting that liberals are protected by the very people they hate... Profound...
RINO's... these would be those who are boosting northeast 'moderates' for President... NO way... its a sure loser.
well, I gotta go. I can't stay on long or often... its hard to FReep by telegraph wire. =o)
Ya best scrape the cookie dough off the trifocals there ya blue haired bat, those are door hinges.
Great catch!
Is it really possible that this liberal radio format actually TOOK money from the needy to fund their pathetic stab at ruling the air waves?
Ya THINK????????
Sheesh.
Go to bed. You've been celebrating Beer Month too much.
:)
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