Wisconsin Refugee Agency may have scammed taxpayers
big time! by Ann
Corcoran 10/9/16
Call home Paul Ryan! This outrageous “savings”
program is one of many, you as Speaker of the House, need to investigate!
Speaker Paul
Ryan has shown zero interest in reforming the Refugee Act of 1980. I wonder could
we suggest Janesville (his home town) as one of the many new resettlement sites
in America! I’m guessing this is not an isolated case.
For new
readers, Speaker Paul Ryan has not allowed any serious Refugee Act reform bills
(he allowed one sham bill because he knew the Senate wouldn’t pass it anyway)
to move forward in the House during his tenure as speaker and for that matter
neither has Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
These so-called
‘Individual
Development Accounts’ are an abomination and potentially rife with fraud. When
taxpayers learn about them (we have mentioned them on many occasions) they are
shocked.
The federal
government actually gives grants to non-profit refugee agencies to administer a
program which allows refugees to get matching funds when they save money for
four things (Education, business, home or car).
How would you
like to get such a deal: For every dollar a refugee saves, he/she is matched a dollar out
of the US Treasury (your pocket)!
But, again the
program is managed by a resettlement contractor (with no accountability to the
taxpayer) like this one in Milwaukee. Financial audits/investigations of
the contractors are rare.
A Milwaukee nonprofit that offers after-school
programs for refugee children and other assistance for refugees is under
investigation for alleged misuse of federal funds.
The Pan-African
Community Association gave money to at least 32 people who were not
eligible to receive funds, investigators with the federal Office of Refugee
Resettlement have found, according to records obtained by the Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Ethiopian Community
Development Council is one of nine federally funded refugee contractors that
could not exist without your tax dollars.
Go to this link
to see if they have an office near you:
In addition,
the organization violated terms of federal grants by spending more than 35% of
its annual budget on administrative costs and paying individuals in the form of
money orders, rather than paying vendors directly for items purchased, the
reports state.
The association
received more than $440,000 in federal funds from 2012 to 2015 to help refugees
from Africa and around the world buy cars and houses and to open businesses in
Milwaukee. Using Individual Development Accounts, the program was designed to
offer matching grants to refugees who, for example, saved at least $2,000 of
their own money to go toward the purchase of a car or $4,000 toward a house.
The Pan-African Community Association is
contracted through the “preferred communities program,” with the Ethiopian
Community Development Council. The council, in turn, is one of about 10 [nine
actually—ed] national organizations — mostly faith-based — that the federal
government contracts with to provide services to refugees.
Continue
here for more of
the gory details and denials.
I haven’t
written about “preferred communities” since here
in 2014. But, you
might have a look and see if your city is one of them. They don’t change often.
Call Congress!
Time to listen
to ‘Mom for Trump’ (I am not going to quit trying to persuade you that right
now there is only one place to put pressure to slow the flow of third worlders
to your towns—Congress!):
Ann, could you tell
all your readers on a daily basis to call our useless Congress @ 202 224 3121
and have them say DEFUND REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM. I call daily and if
enough of us do so, we can make a difference.
If you have problems getting a live person on
the phone when you call Washington (like I did when I called my Congressman John Delaney
(D-MD) the other day), then find out the locations and phone numbers of their
district and state offices and call those. When you have someone on the
phone on Tuesday (they surely won’t be there on Monday), in addition to telling
them to defund the program, find out where your member or Senator will be in
the coming weeks and be there! Ask (in person, in front of an audience)
if he or she will Defund the Refugee Resettlement Program when they get back to
DC after the election.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/wisconsin-refugee-agency-may-have-scammed-taxpayers-big-time/
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