From: M Petrelis Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 01:24:45 EDT Subject: Family Research Council on AIDS accountability (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) Reply-to: fun4phil@cris.com To: CYB-ACC@LISTSERV.AOL.COM 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 ********************************************************************** To see the archives to this list use a web browser and go to http://www.bway.net/~hbograd/cyb-acc.html To unsubscribe to CYB-ACC, send mail to: Listserv@listserv.aol.com In the mail message, enter ONLY the words: SIGNOFF CYB-ACC To receive one message (digest) from the listserv that has all the day's messages bundled together, send mail to listserv@listserv.aol.com In the mail message, enter: SET CYB-ACC DIGEST ***********************************************************************