Gay Latino Group Bankruptcy Stuns Govt
Bankruptcy of a group aiding gay Latinos has wide reverberations The recent financial collapse of te National Latina/o Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organization, a prominent organization that aids gay Latinos has left federal officials stunned. They are now scrambling to reclaim hundreds of thousands of dollars in allegedly misspent government money. Mercurynews.com reports:
LLEGO once touted itself as the only national organization of its kind. But five months after it got the 2004 federal grant, LLEGO shut down. When auditors began probing, they found that the organization had incurred $703,181 in "unallowable costs" instead of the promised HIV/AIDS education efforts.
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