00:00While local charities with political clout steal millions from New Yorkers, Attorney
00:05General Letitia James crusades with maximum malice against a tiny, defunct non-profit
00:11in West Virginia, of all places.
00:15VDARE, an obscure anti-immigration website, was founded decades ago in New York and left
00:21shortly thereafter.
00:23But that's enough to let Tish James focus her office's efforts on looking into its
00:28apparent use of donor money to buy a headquarters in the Mountain State town of Berkeley Springs,
00:35which doubles as a home for its founder.
00:38Now for reasons known only to Tish James and God, she has pursued a vendetta against this
00:43obscure right-wing blog for years.
00:47The press release announcing her latest lawsuit against VDARE lists five section chiefs, assistant
00:53attorney generals, and staff as working on this case.
00:56Meanwhile, politically-juiced service providers, truly active in New York City, maintain fat
01:03government contracts with hundreds of millions of dollars, even though their corruption have
01:08been documented knowledge for years.
01:10The profiteers are solid members of the local Democratic elite, so when it comes to investigating,
01:16let alone prosecuting any of them, it's radio silence from the AG.
01:21No press releases, no lawsuits, nothing.
01:24The city's own Department of Investigation details a long-standing pattern of self-dealing,
01:29excessive payments, nepotism, and other blatant irregularities and flat-out illegality in the
01:36city's multi-billion dollar homeless industrial complex.
01:40SEBCO, a non-profit shelter provider, hired a for-profit company to provide security services.
01:48Surprise!
01:49SEBCO owned the security company, chose it via a non-competitive process, and paid its own
01:56executives hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary.
01:59The husband of a SEBCO executive is affiliated with four of its for-profit subcontractors,
02:06providing a range of services from extermination to maintenance and cleaning.
02:10Acacia Network, another homeless shelter operator with a dodgy safety record, pays its top executive
02:17close to a million dollars a year, a figure the charity says is reasonable.
02:23According to a consultant it hired, the DOI found similar scams going on across dozens
02:29of homeless services providers.
02:31The feds have prosecuted a few of the insiders and sent them to prison, while AG James devotes
02:37her resources to ideological lawfare.
02:40Now, Vitaire may have misallocated some of its meager contributions, but it never got a
02:46dime from the taxpayers.
02:49All its donors are private individuals, most of whom probably understood where their money
02:54was going.
02:55New York's social service nonprofits, meanwhile, are built entirely around leeching taxpayer
03:01money and enriching and or empowering their own leadership.
03:06Tish James is a genius at chasing headlines as she prosecutes her ideological enemies, but
03:12an utter failure at policing the charities that rob New Yorkers blind.
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