Cut off the shameless nonprofits making bank off NYCs homeless services
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Any industry can be lucrative if you’re shameless enough — even “helping the homeless.” A damning Department of Investigations report shows the heads of city-paid shelter “charities” have been milking the system for years, using taxpayer cash to award themselves massive pay packages.The numbers are jaw-dropping: $916,000 for the CEO of Acacia Network Housing; more than $700,000 across multiple years for the head of Camba; $1 million for the CEO of CORE, Jack Brown — who in 2021 was also caught stacking the org’s payroll with buddies and set up for-profit vendors that also funneled him cash.
(The city cut ties with CORE shortly after.) That’s a lot of profit for the heads of nonprofits.Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park took the heat at Tuesday’s City Council hearing, but these abuses are longstanding.Including execs’ double-dipping: The report showed that nonprofit shelter provider SEBCO Development Inc.used $11.6 million in taxpayer money to cover security services from a company owned by SEBCO, then senior executives at SEBCO cashed in on nearly $400,000 in salaries from the security company.And those are just the nonprofits that followed their agreements and actually reported executive salaries; at least 13 of 87 contracted shelter providers have not.
Imagine the extravagance hiding in those records.It’s no surprise: The shelter system is a free-for-all for pocket-padding grifters at this point.
Back in October when the report first dropped, The Post reported that Garner Environmental Services, the organization picked to replace scandal-ridden DocGo, was set to rake in an eye-watering $457 million from the city — a cool $25 million more than its predecessor.And before that, it was DocGo spending a total of $1.7 million on nearly 10,000 unused hotel rooms supposedly meant for migrants (which brought in a pretty $408,680 in commissions for DocGo).
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