Nonprofit officials spent $400,000 in welfare dollars to lobby state government. Public education

[TexasTowelie]

Nonprofit officials spent $400,000 in welfare dollars to lobby state government. Public education funding flowed their way.


Prominent special education figure Nancy New spent hundreds of thousands of welfare dollars her nonprofit had received from the state to cull favor and lobby state government for her private school interests, according to interviews and documents.

The nonprofit, at the center of what is now called the largest alleged public embezzlement scheme in state history, spent at least $400,000 in welfare funds to “maintain governmental revenue streams or to lobby on behalf of their organization” from 2017 to 2019, the state auditor reported.

In those three years, she and her son’s separate private school companies quietly received nearly $1.3 million from direct legislative appropriations in the public education budget.

But as is the case with many of the purchases her nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center made, investigators have found, little public documentation exists to show what influence their efforts may have had.

Read more: https://mississippitoday.org/2020/05/19/nonprofit-spent-400000-in-welfare-dollars-to-lobby-government-officials-public-education-funding-flowed-their-way/