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Gun buyback corruption in Philadelphia
Story here. An audit of $800,000 in DoJ grants to run a guy "buy-back" program showed that nearly $480,000 was corruptly used. The director of the program gave himself a $85,000 pay raise (without asking the board of directors to approve), brining his total pay to over a quarter of a million a year. He also spent thousands on gas, hotel rentals, and clothing. It paid $44,000 in rental and utilities for a building it used one a month. And it could not account for $28,000 in gift cards that were not traded for a gun but could not be accounted for.
On the side, it obtained 2,871 guns ... at a cost of $279 per gun. Since it handed out $100 gift cards for each, that indicates that close to two-thirds of the money went to "overhead." For an operation where the police actually collected the guns, and the organization simply handed out the gift cards.
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Can I be in charge of the next gun buyback program?
If someone involved gets prosecuted for fraud in this gun buyback, can the sentencing enhancement for "use of a firearm in connection with the crime" be utilized?
By the way, "buyback" is really bad nomenclature. With the exception of some former military guns (M1, 1911s, etc), most of the firearms "bought" in these schemes were never government owned in the first place, they were built by private companies and bought by ordinary citizens, and thus there is no "buyback". The government is purchasing guns, not "buying them back".
We can only hope.
But, the other set of laws will apply to this fellow traveler.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton.
IMO, we haven't had an honorable elected servant other than and since GW, and I don't mean the recent one.
Our entire system is filled with power grabbing, self-serving, vindictive, ignorant, corrupt, dishonorable individuals.
Judgement, not mine, to follow.
GW who lead an attack on US Citizens in the so-called Whiskey Rebellion? The start of the urbanized parts of the US screwing over the rural?
OK......
Thats a GREAT business model!