[nfbmi-talk] Fw: and who was the chair?

Mon Dec 2 11:23:17 UTC 2013

My question is who investigated and exposed the theft of funds, and who was
in charge of prosecuting the theft cases.  I have more work for thosre
individuals on behalf of taxpayers, with a list of thieves to pursue within
state gobernment.

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Subject: and who was the chair?

And who was the Chair  of Career Alliance while all this was going on? Yes,
J. Michael Zelley chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and long
time CEO and serial ADA violator, of the Flint based "The Disability
Network", which is our center for independent living.

Joe

Gary Ridley | gridley at mlive.com . Pamela Loving MLive.com file photo FLINT,
MI -- The attorney for the former head of Career Alliance who pleaded guilty

to embezzlement has asked a federal judge to spare her from prison time,
referring to her as an iconic figure in the Flint community. Pamela Loving,
70,

is set to be sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 3, in Flint U.S. District Court after
pleading guilty in June to embezzling federal funds from the career services

agency. Loving, the former president and chief executive officer of Career
Alliance, admitted in court to taking $78,000 from the organization for her

personal benefit and to pay for training sessions for people who did not
work for Career Alliance. A sentencing memorandum submitted to the court
Wednesday,

Nov. 27, her attorney, Richard Morgan, says that Loving is alleged to have
misappropriated more than $700,000 in funds during her 11 year tenure at
Career

Alliance, which now goes by the name Genesee/Shiawassee Michigan Works.
Morgan, who has not commented on Loving's case, claims in the memorandum
that Loving

used $13,000 of the funds for her own personal use -- used mainly to
purchase airplane tickets to conferences and possibly taking her husband
along. "...Ms.

Loving is alleged to have misappropriated funds, again, the amount of money
that one might argue, went directly into her pocket is miniscule in
comparison

to the amount of money that she had control of, $20 million for over 11
years amounts to $200 million," Morgan wrote. "Therefore, the allegation
that she

may have misappropriates for herself $13,000 speaks volumes as to the kind
of person Ms. Loving was. The rest of the money was distributed into
programs

that "the Department of Labor thought should no longer be funded," Morgan
claims. Morgan argues in the memorandum that the federal judge should issue
a

sentence that does not call for prison time, but rather probation, home
confinement or a tether. Loving's plea agreement calls for her to serve
10-16 months

in federal prison. "Ms. Loving has paid a dear price for what she believed
to have been a deed to help mankind," Morgan wrote. "As misguided as this
may

now appear in the daylight, as she was performing her tasks she certainly
did not see herself as being a criminal or someone that was doing something
inappropriate,

as far as she was concerned. Loving, too, submitted a statement to the judge
asking him to forgo including prison time in her sentence. "I have lived my

entire life on behalf of others," Loving said. "Incarceration would be very
difficult for me and my family at age 70. I have no intention of using
federal

funds for any purpose in the future. Loving has served on the Flint school
board, on the Hurley Board of Managers and the Flint Public Library Board.
"This

is a woman who dedicated her life to the Flint community," Morgan wrote. "A
woman who met the challenges and needs of a diverse population and succeeded

in helping and changing many of their lives. Flint Journal records show
Loving was placed on unpaid administrative leave from her position at Career
Alliance

in 2007 and never returned. She won a $154,000 judgment in 2008 against
Career Alliance because she claimed her contract had been effectively
terminated.

County, state and federal investigators reported chronic mismanagement and
improper spending at Career Alliance after a series of Flint Journal stories

in 2007 detailed problems at the organization. Career Alliance serves as a
job-training agency for Genesee and Shiawassee counties as well as the city

of Flint and is responsible for millions of dollars for employment programs.
Last month, former Flint school board member, Helen Williams was sentenced

to two years probation after she pleaded guilty to embezzling funds from
Career Alliance. Williams served as executive director of Flint Family Road,
an

organization started with the goal of reducing infant deaths by better
preparing parents to be mothers and fathers, according to Flint Journal
files. She

admitted in court to falsifying invoices to get money from Career Alliance
contractors for services she never provided. Williams admitted in court to
embezzling

more than $88,000. Williams served on the Flint school board for seven
years, before resigning in 2001. In a 2008 letter questioning spending at
Career

Alliance, the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth said it had
been informed Helen Williams was a cousin of Loving and that Family Road was

given rent-free space in Career Alliance's Ruether Center. Williams was
sentenced Oct. 17 by Flint U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith to also pay
more

than $240,000 in restitution. QB Pittman, Career Alliance's former chief
Financial officer, was sentenced Oct. 24 in U.S. District Court to one year
probation

ordered to pay $91,321.46 in restitution after Pittman pleaded guilty to
misapplication of Workforce Investment Act funding. Pittman said in court
that

he did not directly benefit from the money taken, but also admitted he did
nothing to stop it. 

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