The dirtbags that run BC's Insite

[Locutus]

Portland Hotel Society audit reveals limos, cruises, luxury hotels


Senior managers and board of the Downtown Eastside social agency resigned earlier this week

The B.C. government has released details of a damning audit that shows a non-profit group that looks after some of Canada's poorest citizens spent thousands of dollars on lavish hotels, limousine rides, expensive dinners and even a trip to a Disney resort.

Separate financial reviews examining expenses by the Portland Hotel Society — which runs Canada's only supervised injection site — have uncovered alleged misuse of corporate credit cards, unsupported expenses and inadequate criminal record checks.

The audit report released on Thursday detailed over $8,600 spent on limousine rides last year, a stay in a British hotel that cost almost $900 per night, and a trip for two adults and two children to the Disney resort in Anaheim, Calif., at a cost of more than $2,600.


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The Portland Hotel Society runs Insite, which is Canada's only stand-alone supervised injection site for drug users, and a number of social housing and support facilities in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.


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Portland Hotel Society audit reveals limos, cruises, luxury hotels - British Columbia - CBC News

Portland Hotel Society co-executive director Mark Townsend led the non-profit agency, which opened Canada's first supervised drug injection site, for two decades. He announced his resignation Tuesday.

 

[captain morgan]

Wouldn't surprise me if some of these chumps were dealing smack to their 'clients' in the alleys.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Wouldn't surprise me if some of these chumps were dealing smack to their 'clients' in the alleys.

Why would you do that when you're tapped into government money? Who's richer, the Sinaloa cartel or Boeing?

 

[captain morgan]

No income tax applied to heroin transactions

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

No income tax applied to heroin transactions

And none to corporate welfare either.

 

[captain morgan]

Like?

 

[taxslave]

Socialists do tend to live rather well. Until everyone elses money runs out.

 

[captain morgan]

That's about the size of it... In a way, I can believe the hotel thingy (maybe even stretch on the limo thing considering that a Crown Vic sedan is also called a 'limo'), but the trip to Disneyland? - That's way out there

 

[taxslave]

In their defense it is the Portland hotel society. Therefore it is only right that they see how hotels are run in other vacation spots. Tax free of course.

 

[Zipperfish]

These guys need to sued for the money they stole and then put in jail.

 

[El Barto]

Socialists do tend to live rather well. Until everyone elses money runs out.

Man that is so passee :roll:


Just as bad as communism being the evil empire

 

[mentalfloss]

Socialists do tend to live rather well. Until everyone elses money runs out.

It's a good thing our tax dollars were spent on a reliable audit.

But who's going to audit the auditors?

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

It's a good thing our tax dollars were spent on a reliable audit.

But who's going to audit the auditors?

So the problem here is that they were audited and the expenses brought to light?

 

[captain morgan]

These guys need to sued for the money they stole and then put in jail.

Here's a thought... They can work-off the debt at minimum wage by scouring the back alleys picking up used needles in Van's East End

 

[mentalfloss]

So the problem here is that they were audited and the expenses brought to light?

According to the no taxes are well spent people.

 

[captain morgan]

So the problem here is that they were audited and the expenses brought to light?

Who will be in charge of auditing the secondary auditor's findings?.. How can we trust them?

Looks like we'll have a never ending loop of unproven allegations

 

[mentalfloss]

Just admit your tax dollars did something worthwhile for a change.

 

[L Gilbert]

Portland Hotel Society audit reveals limos, cruises, luxury hotels


Senior managers and board of the Downtown Eastside social agency resigned earlier this week

The B.C. government has released details of a damning audit that shows a non-profit group that looks after some of Canada's poorest citizens spent thousands of dollars on lavish hotels, limousine rides, expensive dinners and even a trip to a Disney resort.

Geeez. Just wait till they audit the various Health Authorities. The guv't will have 7 fits from Sunday.
Opps, I forgot. The guvmint doesn't pick on itself, only on everyone else.

 

[petros]

Wouldn't surprise me if some of these chumps were dealing smack to their 'clients' in the alleys.

When it comes to opiates the majority of junkies get an Rx.

 

[captain morgan]

Just admit your tax dollars did something worthwhile for a change.

$900/night hotel rooms, limos and trips to Disneyland are a smart use of taxpayer dollars for a group that assists hardcore junkies?

Maybe it's time for you to admit that there was an abuse of funds and those monies would have went miles farther being directed at ~ wait for it ~ the addicts that are on the streets.