AIDS research gets a TON of money every year from private donations, but it also gets our money, the taxpayers money in the US. And that money isn't all going for the research, its going to "how to have sex" programs and "flirting classes" in San Fransisco. Cheak the link for more detailed info, I've tried to clean it up a little. Another outlet for governemental aids money taged for research goes here:
On Feb. 28, 2002, the Stop AIDS Project of San Francisco, which received nearly $700,000 from the CDC in fiscal 2001, will sponsor "GUYWATCH: Blow by Blow." The advertisement for the seminar reads, in part: "What tricks do you want to share to make your man tremble with delight?"
Now I dont care if PRIVATE money is sponsoring this, but public money taged for Aids RESEARCH? Spare me please. The US people don't fund the Love Connection either.
A former bookkeeper at Central Florida AIDS Unified Resources (CENTAUR) was ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution on charges of embezzlement. Investigators say Corey White spent money on tickets to Disney World, hotels, and restaurants and sometimes had monthly credit card bills that were more than her $25,000 a year salary. CENTAUR serves as the area's CARE Act fiscal agent.7
In April 2001, The New York Post revealed New York City was spending nearly $180,000 a week ($9 million a year) on hotel rooms for HIV and AIDS patients. That month, the city had reserved 20 rooms at the Sofitel Hotel in Midtown Manhattan at $329 apiece. The Division of AIDS Services and Income Support (DASIS), which is responsible for the bookings, is legally obligated to place people with HIV and AIDS in hotels the day they apply for emergency housing. Advocates say DASIS must use the expensive hotels because it has ruined its relationship with lower-cost hotels by not paying bills on time. New York City received $52.6 million in HOPWA funding in fiscal 2001.8
Consider the following:
A May 2000 state audit of a Los Angeles AIDS service organization revealed that $21.8 million in federal housing grants for people with AIDS has accumulated since 1993 and still remained unspent. The audit also found $547,000 that had funded employees who provided services that were unrelated to AIDS. Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, told the Associated Press, "The program is in shambles."80
According to a HUD audit, Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago misused more than $20,000 in federal funds. The nonprofit, which received a $1.3 million HUD grant, sponsors the NextStep Program and runs the Rafael Center, a transitional center for homeless people with HIV and AIDS. The Center overcharged the federal government $10,920 for part of the salary of the program's executive director. The Center also spent $8,000 to buy meals for people who were not in the program.81
The non-profit Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan (THAP) gives its top executives plenty of perks despite its financial woes. THAP boss Chester M. Luney and THAP Chief Executive Officer Lynn Knox rang up nearly $1,000 in meal charges in a three-week period and were also afforded the use of sport utility vehicles. Mr. Luney received up to $45,000 a year annually for the maintenance of his. THAP's top executives also received four season tickets for Tampa Bay Bucaneers games and two season tickets for both the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Meanwhile, THAP owed nearly $25,000 in delinquent payroll taxes.82 THAP receives $450,000 a year from the federal government to provide housing to people with AIDS.83
In 1996, a HOPWA pilot program in Los Angeles came under fire because it had refused to evict AIDS patients from federal housing if they continued to use illicit drugs. Long-standing HUD policies require the expulsion of any public housing resident that continues such a habit.84
This is a clear misuse of funding desperately needed for AIDS research where political interests and plain greedy people are explioting the donations for their own personal use.
The problem is if anyone questions where the money is going or wants to clean up the mess they are a homophobe, bigot, right winged nut etc.
This is a serious problem that demands serious action. Some of these people need to be put in jail.
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On Feb. 28, 2002, the Stop AIDS Project of San Francisco, which received nearly $700,000 from the CDC in fiscal 2001, will sponsor "GUYWATCH: Blow by Blow." The advertisement for the seminar reads, in part: "What tricks do you want to share to make your man tremble with delight?"
Now I dont care if PRIVATE money is sponsoring this, but public money taged for Aids RESEARCH? Spare me please. The US people don't fund the Love Connection either.
A former bookkeeper at Central Florida AIDS Unified Resources (CENTAUR) was ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution on charges of embezzlement. Investigators say Corey White spent money on tickets to Disney World, hotels, and restaurants and sometimes had monthly credit card bills that were more than her $25,000 a year salary. CENTAUR serves as the area's CARE Act fiscal agent.7
In April 2001, The New York Post revealed New York City was spending nearly $180,000 a week ($9 million a year) on hotel rooms for HIV and AIDS patients. That month, the city had reserved 20 rooms at the Sofitel Hotel in Midtown Manhattan at $329 apiece. The Division of AIDS Services and Income Support (DASIS), which is responsible for the bookings, is legally obligated to place people with HIV and AIDS in hotels the day they apply for emergency housing. Advocates say DASIS must use the expensive hotels because it has ruined its relationship with lower-cost hotels by not paying bills on time. New York City received $52.6 million in HOPWA funding in fiscal 2001.8
Consider the following:
A May 2000 state audit of a Los Angeles AIDS service organization revealed that $21.8 million in federal housing grants for people with AIDS has accumulated since 1993 and still remained unspent. The audit also found $547,000 that had funded employees who provided services that were unrelated to AIDS. Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, told the Associated Press, "The program is in shambles."80
According to a HUD audit, Travelers and Immigrants Aid of Chicago misused more than $20,000 in federal funds. The nonprofit, which received a $1.3 million HUD grant, sponsors the NextStep Program and runs the Rafael Center, a transitional center for homeless people with HIV and AIDS. The Center overcharged the federal government $10,920 for part of the salary of the program's executive director. The Center also spent $8,000 to buy meals for people who were not in the program.81
The non-profit Tampa Hillsborough Action Plan (THAP) gives its top executives plenty of perks despite its financial woes. THAP boss Chester M. Luney and THAP Chief Executive Officer Lynn Knox rang up nearly $1,000 in meal charges in a three-week period and were also afforded the use of sport utility vehicles. Mr. Luney received up to $45,000 a year annually for the maintenance of his. THAP's top executives also received four season tickets for Tampa Bay Bucaneers games and two season tickets for both the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Meanwhile, THAP owed nearly $25,000 in delinquent payroll taxes.82 THAP receives $450,000 a year from the federal government to provide housing to people with AIDS.83
In 1996, a HOPWA pilot program in Los Angeles came under fire because it had refused to evict AIDS patients from federal housing if they continued to use illicit drugs. Long-standing HUD policies require the expulsion of any public housing resident that continues such a habit.84
This is a clear misuse of funding desperately needed for AIDS research where political interests and plain greedy people are explioting the donations for their own personal use.
The problem is if anyone questions where the money is going or wants to clean up the mess they are a homophobe, bigot, right winged nut etc.
This is a serious problem that demands serious action. Some of these people need to be put in jail.
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