DOJ employees have asked the agency's Inspector General to look into a $530,000 anti-trafficking grant to a group called Hookers for Jesus.
A U.S. Justice Department anti-human trafficking grant program is facing internal complaints, after two non-profit's were denied funding in favor of two less established groups whose applications...
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Hookers for Jesus? Whistleblower complains about human trafficking grants, report says
Charles Duncan
February 11, 2020, 9:16 AM CST
Federal funding to help victims of human trafficking went to less qualified organizations, according to an exclusive Reuters report on a whistleblower complaint.
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded more than $1 million to Hookers for Jesus, a Nevada nonprofit, and the Lincoln Tubman Foundation in South Carolina last year, federal funding records show
The whistleblower complaint was filed in December by the union representing the employees. The complaint asked the inspector general to investigate if politics played a role in doling out the grant money, Reuters reports.
The complaint says the Justice Department passed over two better qualified organizations, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Palm Beach and Chicanos Por La Causa, in Phoenix, Arizona, that have ties to Democrats or oppose Trump administration policies, Reuters reports.
The complaint says the two organizations that were passed over for funding were more qualified than the two that did receive grants. In a statement to Reuters, the office in charge of the grants defended the awards, saying they were given on a merit-based system that also tried to distribute the funding to as many states as possible.
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