By Bob Walsh
There is, as you might expect, a
fairly robust NAACP Chapter in Sacramento, CA. The organization is now
suing it's former chapter officers for fraud and breech of contract,
asserting that they used the organization as a cover to steal money
meant to feed hungry people in Sac during the height of the Covid
pandemic.
Named are Betty
Williams, former chapter president, Salena Pryon, former education chair
and Lorraine Moore, former chapter treasurer. The organization that
lost the money was Dine-In 2, a meals program that the county contracted
with the NAACP to run.
The
organization seems to be genuinely pissed that these three hid behind
the organization in order to steal money from poor, hungry people.
Their feeling of being pissed might even be genuine.
The
organization is asking for damages plus punative damages and
consequential damages (whatever the hell those might be). The complaint
notes fraudulent and missing invoices, outright misappropriation,
questionable accounting practices and pretty obvious conflicts of
interest. The county ran an official audit of the situation earlier
this year. The county is demanding $950,000 back from NAACP in
disallowed costs plus $1.7 million for funds that just disappeared.
The
county first became aware that something dubious was going on in April
of 2023. Williams, Moore and Pryor were suspended from the organization
in October of 2023. The county audit, which was released in May of
this year, exposed "rampant self-dealing" among other issues.
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