(ABC News) Exclusive: Bush White House Pushed ($1.2 Million) Grant for Former Staffer

Source: ABC News

Evangelical Group With the White House Connections Awarded $1.2 Million Grant.


A former top official in the White House's faith-based office was awarded a lucrative Department of Justice grant under pressure from two senior Bush administration appointees, according to current and former DOJ staff members and a review of internal DOJ documents and emails.

The $1.2 million grant was jointly awarded to a consulting firm run by Lisa Trevino Cummins who previously headed Hispanic outreach efforts for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, and a California evangelical group, Victory Outreach.

The grant was awarded over the strong objections of career DOJ staff who did not believe that Victory Outreach was qualified for the grant and that too great an amount of the funds was going to Cummins' consulting company instead of being spent on services for children.

Cummins' company, Urban Strategies LLC, was slated to get one third of the money for helping the self-described "evangelizing" Victory Outreach use the rest of the funds.

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Cummins' application for the grant should have immediately "raised red flags," according to a senior Justice Department official. The official said that most of the grant money should be going to services, but that "in this case, you have a third of the money up front going to a consulting company," the official said.

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This is being reported on MSM.

Plus, it is only Bush business as usual.

No other president has ever come any where near to so blatantly inverting church-state separation.

Something is seriously wrong with this picture.

It is no wonder a pack of corrupt jackals want to feed at that trough.

was the BEST thing about the "grant."

Yeah, a red flag for sure.

Start some infighting between him and Rove.

What a bunch of Pharisees the republicon homelander so-called Christians are -- ripping off the public, lying us into war, and bringing hate and wholesale industrial-scale torture to the world.

Ptooey.

is just another way to hand out money that CANNOT be held accountable, because it is a grant, to cronies.

frequently. I have often wondered how in the world they got the money to build the facilities they have which include play facilities, etc.

along with a paid for child care facility?

It's called skimming.

who gets what, and you dont get nuttin sucka.

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spent in about six different cities.

And a few want to give these crooks our Social Security to oversee and invest for us?

Serfs in rags and holding bowls: That where the arrow isn't pointing.
Walled in wealth: That's where the arrow is pointing.

Public schools have to apply for a rate at which they can pull any administrative dollars from federal grants. I don't think I've ever seen one over 10%. And this group gets 33%???? Wow.

But at this point, I wonder if the American people are just totally supersaturated with Bush BS and nothing affects them anymore.

Good people like us get to walk.

Once you've committed war crimes and gotten away with it, you don't even think twice about handing a million bucks to one of your buddies.

If Obama's ever able to clean out the rotten partisans in the Justice Department I think we'll find out that stuff like this has been happening every week Bush has been in office.

crossing the line between Church and State. What idiots.

and hillary`s 800,000 plus earmark to a church in new york city?

sort of thing. This the second or third time this has happened, its starting to freak me out. I must be psychic or something.

The corruption reports seems to happen almost daily. I'm amazed that they have time to commit all these crimes, and I'm equally amazed that congress doesn't give a shit.