Gay group under fire
By JOSH MARGOLIN and DAN MANGAN
The state has ordered dramatic changes at a Brooklyn LGBT social-services organization where a Health Department probe recently uncovered “weaknesses in fiscal policies and internal controls,” The Post has learned.
GRIOT Circle, founded in 1995 as Gay Reunion in Our Time to serve an older gay community, “is addressing the issues identified,” said department spokesman Jeffrey Hammond.
GRIOT did not respond to messages. Its 2010 tax returns show a budget drop from $324,000 to $269,000, and a $50,000 loss in assets — even as salaries shot up from $160,000 to $240,000.
“We’re going backwards,” a whistleblower told The Post. “A lot of the programs we’re supposed to have we don’t have; they’re not operating. It’s really one big mess. We tell people we serve 70 people a day; I haven’t seen 70 people a month. That’s a big lie . . . It’s a shame.”
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By the way I have heard some ugly rumors about LGBT Center in West Village and financials...
something to do with their previous temporary location and bank loans?
Do you ever get the feeling that some people use the Pink Carrying Gay Card as if they are above the law and accountability. Gay Gay Gay Gay and than all the misdeeds are not suppose to count. How could one vote for Christine Quinn because she is gay when she did not fight for protecting zoning for a hospital only. She lied about Mike Bloomberg and why we needed him for a third term.
NY Justice Blind deaf dumb.
Remember Cuomo and judge Judy Kaye fixed it so Dave Perjury Paterson who was also guilty of witness tampering had the only honest folk in Albany resign over him protecting Dave Johnson and attempting to silence Dave 6 foot 9, his victim in to silence!
They all celebrated getting away with this at Christine Quinn's political wedding where Judy Kaye political fixer judge married Quinn and what's her name.
Ask of them starting with Cuomo and Quinn (not a feminist icon) why spousal abuse is up and under reported.
Welcome to corrupt NYC! Albany to City Hall a cess pool.
She gave 11 million dollars to the gay and lesbian center on 13th street all in one fell swoop then gave them more millions for so called repairs to the building and the money to buy and take off the tax rolls the building next door.
She's papered the walls with money for this self controlled vote getting machine that goes under the guise of a lesbian and gay community center but, only a select few gays and lesbians can go there.
That's the ones who can afford to more than pay their way also.
If you're going to tell the story then tell the story.
It's all there for any reporter to write about.
And it's not just about an ego rubbing relationship between two greedy women as pictured here in this article.
It's about a rude and arrogant power driven egomaniac who wants everyone to allow her complete control to rule the roost as she sees fit, and for her own benefit.
Nobody likes Christine Quinn and she and the others of us will find that out for sure when she's city wide in asking for votes, and not just the council district that she's been extorting votes from all these years to keep her in public office!
Perley J. Thibodeau
