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

Mon Dec 2 11:39:35 UTC 2013

Actually, and most ironically this was all started by a report by of all 
folks DELEG for inappropriate expenditures.

Fat chance of that happening now with LARA.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
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> 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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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: joe harcz Comcast
> To: Leigh Campbell-Earl
> Cc: Scott Heinzman ADAPT ; Clark Goodrich ; Laura Hall ; rhon koch
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 10:11 AM
> 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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