(California Globe) Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Commission last week, citing time constraints, and refused a House summons the following Tuesday for a hearing titled “Fixing Fraud and Failure in Federally Funded Homelessness Services.”
On Wednesday, the Justice Department unsealed fraud charges against nonprofit operators who drew tens of millions through that agency, including more than $75 million LAHSA paid one contractor now accused of turning homeless-housing invoices into a nightclub.
HUD Secretary Scott Turner put the larger number on the table in a Fox News interview the same day. “LAHSA has received $1 billion—and I want everybody to hear this. A billion dollars of taxpayer money over 5 years with zero results,” Turner told Fox’s Matt Finn. “There’s no business in America that is ran that way or that would be sustained. Your own personal family budget cannot be ran that way and sustained.”