@ArthurMKane

Managing editor investigations The Center Square. Author "The Last Story: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas." Posts reflect my own views.

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A Detroit nonprofit's tax filings reported more than $500,000 in annual compensation for a pastor who says he received nothing.
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The nonprofit blamed staffing turnover for its accounting weaknesses, while a former finance director said its finance team shrank from five employees to two. Read the full investigation: thecentersquare.com/national…

Taxpayer Philanthropy: Feds gave nonprofit $23M despite accounting woes

(The Center Square)—The National Council of Urban Indian Health received $23.6 million in federal funds in four years even as an auditor flagged accounting problems in three of those years,

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INVESTIGATION: A D.C. nonprofit received $23.6 million in federal funding over four years despite auditors flagging accounting problems in three of those years. Auditors found serious internal-control weaknesses in 2022 and 2023, including a request for more federal funds without accounting for $200,000 already received.
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How does a $39,000 SUV become a $950,000 purchase? Records show Georgia's child welfare agency acquired a vehicle equipped with an expensive cell-site simulator.
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INVESTIGATION: Georgia paid $954,578 for a Chevrolet Traverse. The SUV itself cost about $38,700.
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Why Georgia's child protection agency paid $1 million for a Chevy

(The Center Square) – The Georgia Department of Human Services, which oversees the state's child welfare agency, paid over $950,000 for just one Chevrolet Traverse, documents obtained by The Center

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A Detroit pastor's nonprofit reported paying him roughly $500,000. Now those tax filings are being corrected following an investigation by The Center Square.
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How did incorrect salary figures end up on a nonprofit's tax filings?
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INVESTIGATION: A Georgia analyst projects nearly 31,000 possible voting residency violations this November. State officials dispute his estimate.
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Text card explaining that, at The Center Square’s request, analyst Mark Davis compared Georgia voter records with Postal Service change-of-address data. Davis, a state Republican Party elections task force member, projects nearly 31,000 possible residency violations in November by people voting in counties they may have left. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger disputes the estimate. State Election Board member Sara Tindall Ghazal says mail-forwarding records alone cannot prove illegal voting. Davis agrees individual cases need investigation. Footer: “Read more at thecentersquare.com.”

ALT Text card explaining that, at The Center Square’s request, analyst Mark Davis compared Georgia voter records with Postal Service change-of-address data. Davis, a state Republican Party elections task force member, projects nearly 31,000 possible residency violations in November by people voting in counties they may have left. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger disputes the estimate. State Election Board member Sara Tindall Ghazal says mail-forwarding records alone cannot prove illegal voting. Davis agrees individual cases need investigation. Footer: “Read more at thecentersquare.com.”

Text card explaining that someone voting in a county they’ve left could help choose that county’s sheriff, school board or other local leaders. In close races, disputed ballots could become grounds for election challenges. Davis proposes allowing registration transfers between counties through Election Day, with address checks at the polls. Ghazal supports pursuing that legislative fix to keep voter records accurate while protecting eligible voters’ access to the ballot. Footer: “Read more at thecentersquare.com.”

ALT Text card explaining that someone voting in a county they’ve left could help choose that county’s sheriff, school board or other local leaders. In close races, disputed ballots could become grounds for election challenges. Davis proposes allowing registration transfers between counties through Election Day, with address checks at the polls. Ghazal supports pursuing that legislative fix to keep voter records accurate while protecting eligible voters’ access to the ballot. Footer: “Read more at thecentersquare.com.”

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ILLEGAL VOTING ALLEGED: A longtime Georgia elections data analyst is warning state officials that tens of thousands of potentially illegal ballots could be cast in the coming weeks by people no longer living at their addresses of record, @thecentersquare reports today. Using Georgia’s voter rolls and National Change of Address data, Mark Davis predicts nearly 31,000 residency violations in the upcoming races for governor and U.S. Senate, with a projected 4,200 of them voting from out of state. The rest would be in state but in a different county. @MarkDavisGOP has been working with Georgia's election files for four decades and sits on a state Republican Party elections task force. He isn't talking about illegal votes by non-U.S. citizens, convicted felons, dead people, or people registered at bridges. He's talking about registered voters who move out of their counties, fail to update their registrations as state law requires, but then vote anyway at precincts in their old counties, helping decide congressional seats, sheriffs, school boards, city councils and other races that aren't theirs. 🧵, with story link below ⬇️ /1
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A nonprofit operated by a Detroit megachurch pastor recently amended six years of tax filings after The Center Square reported the eye-popping salaries the original filings listed for him. Since 2020, Perfecting Community Development Corporation has reported salaries for Pastor Marvin Winans that more than doubled in that time and exceeded $500,000 last year, according to Internal Revenue Service filings. But a day after The Center Square published its findings about the salaries last week, Winans told his congregation that those federal reports are wrong. Read more: thecentersquare.com/michigan…
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California voters could face two competing decisions over how the state taxes wealth.
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Colorado is suing the federal government to try to halt construction of an immigrant detention center, arguing that a key step was skipped.
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California voters approved about $1 billion a year for arts and music in public schools. A lawsuit claims the Los Angeles Unified School District misused $76.7 million of it. Now the state has changed how that money can be spent. The changes are set to take full effect at every school starting in the 2027–28 fiscal year. Read the full story: thecentersquare.com/californ…

School arts bill signed while lawsuit proceeds against LAUSD

(The Center Square) – Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed legislation giving California school districts greater flexibility in how they spend voter-approved arts and music education funding, though the...

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Taxpayer Philanthropy: Detroit pastor paid $540K for part-time work A Detroit pastor who last year admonished a parishioner for her inadequate church donation of $1,235 was paid a salary of $538,955 that year by a taxpayer-funded nonprofit he leads that is separate from the church, according to federal records. Read more: thecentersquare.com/michigan…

Taxpayer Philanthropy: Detroit pastor paid $540K for part-time work

(The Center Square) — A Detroit pastor who last year admonished a parishioner for her inadequate church donation of $1,235 was paid a salary of $538,955 that year by a

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TAXPAYER PHILANTHROPY: A Detroit pastor who last year admonished a parishioner for her inadequate church donation of $1,235 was paid a salary of $538,955 that year by a taxpayer-funded nonprofit he leads that is separate from the church, @jstrong712 of The Center Square reports. During a church service, Marvin Winans Sr. — the pastor of Perfecting Church and a Grammy-winning gospel singer — asked congregants to individually approach the front of the sanctuary and present their donations. When one woman, accompanied by a child, presented her $1,000 plus $235 she had obtained elsewhere, Winans responded: "Now that's only $1,200. ... Y'all not listening to what I'm saying," according to video the church had published of the service. Meanwhile, the pastor's salary accounted for about 61% of what the nonprofit spent toward its stated mission of "community development," its recent report to the Internal Revenue Service shows. And his role is a part-time job, @thecentersqare reported. thecentersquare.com/michigan…

Taxpayer Philanthropy: Detroit pastor paid $540K for part-time work

(The Center Square) — A Detroit pastor who last year admonished a parishioner for her inadequate church donation of $1,235 was paid a salary of $538,955 that year by a

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has filed hundreds of state-mandated “transparency” reports intended to disclose millions of dollars donated to third parties at her behest, but at least 23 filings reviewed by The Center Square show her requesting money from "Anonymous." Read the full story: thecentersquare.com/californ…
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Arizona's government agencies can no longer have the final word on what public records to hand over. The state's highest court ruled unanimously that agencies can't unilaterally decide a record stays secret. From now on, courts will independently review those decisions. The case stemmed from a state university withholding records from a professor for years. The school only released them after facing a lawsuit. If you've ever had a records request denied, this ruling could make it harder for agencies to say no. Full story: thecentersquare.com/arizona/…

Arizona ruling makes public records easier to obtain

(The Center Square) - A lawyer with the Goldwater Institute says a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling will make it easier to obtain public records.

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Three years ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass promised to stop lobbyists from donating to two nonprofits closely associated with her office, but an investigation by The Center Square found the corporations and organizations paying those lobbyists have still given millions of dollars at her request. Read more: thecentersquare.com/californ…
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Control of Senate might hinge on liberal Muslim in Michigan Democratic hopes of taking control of the U.S. Senate in the upcoming midterm elections are heavily dependent on retaining an open seat in Michigan. The race features a charismatic and energetic though controversial liberal Democrat, and also the first Muslim nominated by a major party for the post, against an Old Guard Republican who had blamed President Donald Trump for the U.S. Capitol attack in 2021. thecentersquare.com/michigan…
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