It's been revealed that a trustee of William Blake House, a care home for adults with profound disabilities, embezzled £1m. There are very few homes in the country that offer this sort of care and now it faces closure. As a father of a disabled son myself can I tell the prime minister that this situation is one of my worst nightmares, and it's one of the worst nightmares of many parents with disabled adult children.
I have spent a year helping my elderly parents sell their house and pay off tremendous debt, mostly due to my mother's spending and hoarding. My father is unable to handle anything due to health issues. I have had help from my family so I'm not alone in this. I am still very involved with helping them with finances and doctors. They are in a small rental now with no maintenance or yard duties.
Seeking financial stability, Averett University has sold its North Campus athletic facilities in an $18 million deal that will allow it to lease back the nearby 70-acre site, Cardinal News reported. The property is located about a 10-minute drive from Averett's main campus in Virginia. The site was purchased by local entities: the Danville Regional Foundation and the Danville-Pittsylvania Regional Industrial Facility Authority, which each own 50 percent of the property, according to Averett's announcement.
We recognize the deep importance Tucson Pride has held in our community since 1977, serving as a space of visibility, advocacy, celebration, and resilience for nearly five decades. We are profoundly grateful to every volunteer, sponsor, artist, activist, and community member who has supported Tucson Pride throughout its history.
Thanks for taking away one of my favorite venues. You say its because you were losing cash, but we all know you got a huge grant from covid, a loan from your parents, bought horses, and basically ignored your business; and whined about it. Look, give up, just fucking give up - stop bringing everything else down around you because you don't care. Now I have to drive outside my neighborhood to see a decent show? Fuck you people.
Texas governor Greg Abbott and lieutenant governor Dan Patrick have ordered an investigation of Texas Southern University, a historically Black institution in Houston, after a state audit found evidence of financial mismanagement and bookkeeping inconsistencies, The Texas Tribune reported. The audit found 700 invoices, totaling $280 million, linked to contracts that were listed as expired in the institution's database. Another 800 invoices, worth $160 million, were dated before the purchases were approved, the Tribune reported.
Troubled Hamilton Academical have been left without a director, while a Scottish FA ruling also bans the League One club's owner from the day-to-day running of affairs. The governing body state that neither Seref Zengin nor Gerry Strain are "fit and proper to hold a position" in the game. Owner Zengin resigned as a director last month, while chairman Jock Brown recently stood down, which had left Strain as the sole director.
It's that deluge of money, Feucht's and his ministry's amassing of expensive real estate in its wake and their lack of financial transparency, which has former ministry staff and volunteers now accusing the worship leader of mismanaging ministry funds. Three former associates with Feucht's worship organizations, such as Burn 24-7, Let Us Worship and Light a Candle, shared details with The Associated Press about Feucht's alleged financial mismanagement, verbal abuse and overworking volunteers and staff without fair wages.
Mission Local has learned from multiple sources that Housing Authority Chief Executive Officer Tonia Lediju, appointed by former Mayor London Breed in 2021 to oversee the embattled affordable housing agency, is "no longer affiliated" with the San Francisco Housing Authority. By publishing time, it is unclear whether Lediju was asked to step down from her position or left the San Francisco Housing Authority proactively.
Although paying employees may have been necessary in the very beginning of the pandemic, the CTA's payment for no work continued week after week for five years. No justifiable reason for this continued payment was provided in any CTA documents or by any of the relevant CTA employees interviewed.
"By doing so, Kobata and Ghysels were able to please the superintendent by providing him with additional, misappropriated funds for use in purchasing luxuries such as retained massage therapists, expensive Cuban cigars, expensive food and travel, etc.," Facciano's lawyer, Stanley Apps, said in the brief.