From the New York Post: The director of a controversial Muslim nonprofit is accused of misleading US Senators over how it spent more than $20 million in cash earmarked to resettle refugees, according to watchdog groups.
Senators are probing what happened to the tens of millions of taxpayer funds used for a humanitarian parole program that allowed almost 77,000 Afghan refugees into the country following the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Some of that money was distributed through the California Department of Social Services’ Afghan Legal Services Project (ALSP) and handled by the California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
The director of CAIR-CA, Hussam Ayloush, told in a Jan. 9 letter to Senators CAIR-CA “had no input or role in identifying the organizations chosen to provide direct legal services (to Afghan refugees) under the grant.”
“CAIR-CA and its regional offices were amongst numerous other non-CAIR-CA organizations that received funds from the state of California…. All selected organizations were required to submit reports to the State of California, regarding the fiscal and programmatic status of the grants throughout the grant period to ensure compliance,” Ayloush said.
Two whistleblower groups, the Intelligent Advocacy Network (IAN) and the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), pushed back, saying, “Ayloush personally signed every one of these ALSP grants as executive director of CAIR-LA.”
“He accepted those duties in writing. He certified compliance. He agreed to oversight and accountability provisions that directly contradict the claims he later made to Congress,” the whistleblowers argued.
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