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White House steps in to stop LA fraud — the only accountability there is

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“For years American taxpayers have been sending billions to Los Angeles. The result? Fraud and corruption. That ends today.”

So said Scott Brady, executive director of the White House Fraud Task Force, chaired by Vice President JD Vance.

Brady announced that the federal government had cut off funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), whose mismanagement has been legendary, even by local standards.

LAHSA has spent billions to solve the problem of homelessness in LA. Almost $1 billion of its funds have come from the federal government since 2021.

But a court-ordered audit last year found that LAHSA could not account for much of the money it had spent, and that there was even doubt about whether money was going toward homeless services at all.

Its CEO, Va Lecia Adams Kellum, resigned earlier this year after she was found to have awarded a $2.1 million contract to an organization where her husband happened to work.

The office of the inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) also looked into LAHSA earlier this year, finding that its federally........

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