Subject: Family Research Council on AIDS accountability
From: M Petrelis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 01:24:45 EDT

(dear friends,
i captured this yesterday from a generic cyber accountability listserv that i
am on which is not aids specific.  i find it interesting that gary bauer's
right wing family research council is moving full steam ahead with pointing
out growing accountability issues of the aids industry . . . and our
california democratic friends, boxer and  pelosi remain silent.
what exactly will it take for the demos to weigh in on aids accountability
problems?   
--mp)

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Thought this might be of interest.  It is from Family Research Councils
daily emails.

High Yield Charity Work

ACT-UP's Michael Petrelis has teamed up with Republican Rep.
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to highlight the dirty secret of the
AIDS lobby:  little money ever reaches AIDS sufferers.
Coburn circulated a letter to colleagues in Congress after
Petrelis' research showed dozens of AIDS lobbyists making
well over $100,000 and spending little on direct financial
assistance.

For example, fiscal 1996 records from Washington, D.C.'s,
Whitman-Walker Clinic show that the clinic spent about $8
million of its $16 million budget on salaries, and only
$1.6 million in "direct assistance."  Whitman Walker's
Executive Director pulled in $141,548 for that year.  The
gargantuan Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., for the same year
spent $10.5 million of its $28.3 million budget on
salaries.  GMHC paid executive director Mark Robinson
$153,565, and ten other officers and employees $70,000 or
more, while spending less than $90,000 on "Assistance to
individuals."

- SAS

AIDS Scam, Part II

State auditors of Los Angeles County's Office of AIDS
Programs and Policy have found widespread mismanagement of
funds.  An estimated $547,000 was spent on employees who
didn't provide AIDS services.  In one case, a contractor
was paid $90,000 annually to treat 400 teen clients, but
had provided services to only 10 within the first five
months of the program.  In addition, the AIDS office
monitored only 13 of 241 contracts it had awarded to AIDS
groups - involving $74 million in funds.

- Frank York

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