By: Foundation Trilogy

Foundation Trilogy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:55:27 +0000

Obama is looking bad. Without his use of an
off-camera teleprompter to read from he gets confused about whom he is talking to. You can tell when he is reading because he doesn’t look into the camera. McCain hinted at a very interesting place to save money. They are called NGO’s, Non-Governmental Organizations, the plethora of “not for profits” that administer Federal Monies and programs. Jessie Jackson’s faith based NGO would be an example of a place to look for waste and cronyism. I live in Oregon. I am currently battling a NGO, “not for profit”, Community Sharing in Cottage Grove, Oregon, Nancy Glines Executive Director. They were using Federal housing monies that were given to the State of Oregon, passed to Lane County, then sub-granted to Community Sharing. We had a problem with a caseworker not providing the services for which they were invoicing the Federal government. This is fraud. I complained to Faye Stewart, Lane County Commissioner. Not only did he do nothing to correct the problem but he and the other Lane County Commissioners held a sham administrative hearing to cover-up the fraudulent practices of Community Sharing of Cottage Grove Oregon. I later found out that Faye Stewart was a past board member of Community Sharing and had funded many other “not for profits” in which Nancy Glines is associated. I asked the State of Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services to investigate. They told me that the County Commissioners would investigate themselves. Do you see the problem? A local politician funnels money to a NGO that he is involved with and is in charge of investigating any complaints concerning the NGO. Who oversees if salaries are proper? Who oversees if suppliers are legitimate? In this case who does one complain to when Community Sharing, after receiving funds from Faye Stewart and the Lane County Commissioners, “donates” money and services to Faye Stewart’s “Bohemian Mining Foundation”? Faye Stewart lists on his Lane County web page that he has set up many Foundations. He and his family are connected with the “Community Foundation of Cottage Grove” which is a part of the “Community Foundation of Oregon”. Faye Stewart has relatives on the CFO board and about a million dollars of Stewart family money in that foundation. The “Community Foundation” scheme holds money in a “pooled investment fund”. All participants receive the benefit of being part of a nearly one BILLION dollar pooled investment fund. The fund is composed of “Family money”, such as the Stewart money, regional community foundation money, such as the “Community Foundation of Cottage Grove”, and funds from over 200 “not for profits”, along with various State of Oregon funds. So we have a tax shelter that has amassed almost ONE BILLION dollars of tax-free funds that “grants” money to NGO’s that “donate” to a local politician’s “foundation”. State and Federal money is co-mingled in a pooled investment fund with no oversight. This group is currently securing Federal Housing money in a scheme called “10 year plan to end homelessness” cloned in over 200 counties across the U. S. with no oversight. I look forward to Mr. McCain looking into this massive boondoggle whether he is the next President or if he remains in Congress.

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