note: If Salvation Army Clitheroe directors were substance abuse professionals, then there would be no problem with them receiving the bulk of state substance abuse funding, even through crooked deals like this. They are not substance abuse professionals. They are people who have spent their lives making a very good living from their religion.
Salvation Army Clitheroe apparently received a multi million dollar contract with some unethical "help" from it's biggest buddy. The project below is almost pure pork.
This project was designed as a sly way to slip a huge pile of cash to the Salvation Army. Salvation Army Clitheroe has already been providing very poor quality services, at a cost to taxpayers of $4 million a year. This new project will greatly strengthen the Salvation Army financially, with very little practical benefit to Alaska's addicts and alcoholics.
The relevant testimony on S.B.100 is copied here. (Clitheroe is misspelled "Clithroe")
[The testimony was removed from the Alaska Legislature website in January.]
The first flow of money ($435,000) is documented here.
This project was designed as a sly way to slip a huge pile of cash to the Salvation Army. Salvation Army Clitheroe has already been providing very poor quality services, at a cost to taxpayers of $4 million a year. This new project will greatly strengthen the Salvation Army financially, with very little practical benefit to Alaska's addicts and alcoholics.
The relevant testimony on S.B.100 is copied here. (Clitheroe is misspelled "Clithroe")
[The testimony was removed from the Alaska Legislature website in January.]
The first flow of money ($435,000) is documented here.
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- The Salvation Army was given this windfall [a 5 year, $1.9 million dollar per year contract] without anyone asking why another, more qualified treatment center did not receive the contract. The very large contract involves creating a "secure" treatment setting for certain types of clients.
- Snuck into the middle of hundreds of pages of testimony is this:
And thus the $9.5 million was quietly passed...
- There are many facilities that would be interested in that project.
- Why would a senator invite an Alaska API employee to give testimony, then casually ask if another organization that individual is coincidentally associated with would be interested in the financial benefits of the project? It looks like a scripted event.
- A huge multi-year multi-million dollar contract like that could not go to the lesser qualified of several organizations without somebody pulling strings (Ask the Governor...).
- If you want to send the Governor an email asking for an investigation, her email link is on the upper right of the "proclamations" page.
- (The Governor is a former Salvation Army Director. That much money probably couldn't be slid under the table, to her friends, without her help.)
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The person who is identified as a state of Alaska API employee is the Salvation Army employee responsible for admitting clients. (He is known to all Clitheroe employees).
APOC is the state office responsible for investigating improper lobbying in
Juneau. Maybe APOC [Alaska Public Offices Commission] should take a look?
Interestingly, APOC's investigator is...
... the long term romantic partner of someone who would not benefit from an
investigation of Salvation Army finances.
The investigator's partner is the influential Anchorage citizen on the "Favors" page.
The Governor signed Senate Bill 100 on July 17th, 2007. here / orig
Anyone associated with this project, whether Salvation Army staff or politician, is welcome to fill in the details on how this project developed, and why no other organization was given an opportunity to express interest in it. email: walter@akweb.org or post here.The person who is identified as a state of Alaska API employee is the Salvation Army employee responsible for admitting clients. (He is known to all Clitheroe employees).
APOC is the state office responsible for investigating improper lobbying in
Juneau. Maybe APOC [Alaska Public Offices Commission] should take a look?
Interestingly, APOC's investigator is...
... the long term romantic partner of someone who would not benefit from an
investigation of Salvation Army finances.
The investigator's partner is the influential Anchorage citizen on the "Favors" page.
The Governor signed Senate Bill 100 on July 17th, 2007. here / orig
There is compelling additional evidence of monkey business involving the D.O.C., (who would be involved with the project above). The third client here who was slipped into Detox as a favor to a nurse, was listed on Clitheroe internal censuses as a D.O.C. client, even though the D.O.C. was not involved in any way with his admission to treatment. It was plain that this was done to obscure the circumstances of his admission. It is likely that somebody in the D.O.C. helped create some fraudulent paperwork to muddy the water.
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