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Title: NY: Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials
Post by: mountaineer on January 01, 2019, 08:28:56 pm
Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials
Luke Rosiak
Dec. 31 2018
Daily Caller
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The caucus of black New York state lawmakers runs a charity whose stated mission is to empower “African American and Latino youth through education and leadership initiatives” by “providing opportunity to higher education” — but it hasn’t given a single scholarship to needy youth in two years, according to a New York Post investigation.

The group collects money from companies like AT&T, the Real Estate Board of New York, Time Warner Cable and CableVision, telling them in promotional materials that they are “changing lives, one scholarship at a time.”

The group — called the Association of Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc. — instead spent $500,000 in the 2015 – 2016 fiscal year on items like food, limousines and rap music, the Post found.

The politicians refused to divulge the charity’s 2017 tax filing to the Post despite federal requirements that charities do so upon request. ...
Full story (https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/31/black-lawmakers-charity-didnt-give-out-a-single-scholarship-top-pols-hide-financials/)
Title: Re: NY: Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out A Single Scholarship, Top Pols Hide Financials
Post by: Gefn on January 03, 2019, 06:43:57 pm
Thanks @mountaineer