Minneapolis sues North Side nonprofit alleging negligence, fraud Steve Brandt, Star Tribune Published July 15, 2003 A north Minneapolis business development nonprofit and three people associated with it have been sued by the city to recover more than $589,000 in grants that allegedly were used for unauthorized purposes.
The lawsuit has been served on the Northside Economic Development Council (NEDC), its onetime executive director, Robert Woods, and two board members, Charles Graham and James L. Stroud. They couldn't be reached for comment. "We need to show that we are going to be tough on grant recipients. . . . Whether it will actually be fruitful in terms of getting any funding returned, I am less hopeful," said Kim Havey, a city official who now heads one of the programs that aided NEDC. NEDC was founded in 1996 to stimulate business development on the lower North Side. But city officials cut off federal and city funds in 1998 after learning that several loans went bad, that some money was used to buy property, and that NEDC conducted transactions with its own officials. A state audit reported in 2000 that NEDC might have mishandled more than $700,000. http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/3987911.html Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
