He's running out of hands to get caught in the cookie-jar...
Payments to Rockaway Peninsula were criticized by the good-government group Change-NY in the 1990s as an example of a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the group escaped scrutiny by routinely refusing to file nonprofit reports.
The organization's tax filings from 1996 to 2001 were not filed until February 2003, a violation of charity laws. The documents were slipshod and handwritten, and did not fully detail how the taxpayer money it received was spent.
The returns for 1996, 1997 and 1998 make vague reference to the "acquisition" of a community-center site for the Dinkins program. But the headquarters for the program, which did its work in local schools, was the second floor of a dilapidated house on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway.
Meeks was subpoenaed in April as part of a federal probe into the New Direction Local Development Corp., a Queens charity he founded with state Sen. Malcolm Smith. Smith is also under investigation.
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written by Quickjustice , June 14, 2010
It's well known that N.Y. taxpayer dollars are routinely funneled by public officials into community "non-profit" organizations that are sham charities. Those dollars buy local constituencies who, in turn, will support the public official.
In addition to the scandal surrounding the public officials who pay this money to buy off their constituents, it's the Attorney General's statutory responsibility to monitor these organizations. Check out the "Charities Bureau" on the AG's website.
You haven't asked the obvious question: where was Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as all these illegalities were occurring? Where is he now? Is there any pending investigation into any of this?
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