Non Profit Director Builds Home With Government Dough

Oh yeah … that’s what the South Florida Times is reporting this morning. Combine this with the story below and  … well you get the idea. People everywhere are learning to scam the system. It’s the same kinda scamming that got us into this mess. And it happens EVERY TIME … every time the government gets involved.

FORT LAUDERDALE —  The executive director of a non-profit agency designed to help lower-income, first-time home buyers has used the program to build a house for herself at a discount, according to a South Florida Times investigation.

Jacqueline Tufts, who oversees the New Visions Community Development Corp., directed the agency to build her new home, with improperly documented upgrades, on a lot that was donated to the agency by the city of Fort Lauderdale’s Community Redevelopment Agency. The CRA uses property tax dollars to improve blighted areas. 

Tufts also paid $16,000 less for her home than she charged a New Visions client for a similar home next to it. She also ordered major structural upgrades, records show. The contractor said she paid for the upgrades separately, and that’s why the price of the upgrades is not reflected in the purchase price.

Worth the whole read.