Reply #1: Could be Republican politics, like Whitewater, too, I think [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

(snip) Feds investigating Ballance’s foundation
The Associated Press

RALEIGH (AP) – A now-defunct drug and alcohol treatment program founded by U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance has become the subject of a federal criminal probe, state officials said Tuesday.

Investigators from the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office have collected information about the John A. Hyman Foundation from the N.C. Department of Correction in recent weeks, said department spokesman Keith Acree.

The foundation was largely financed by the state, with its state appropriation approved by the General Assembly. The money flowed through the Department of Correction.

“We have been contacted by federal officials that are looking into the Hyman Foundation. Our controllers office has cooperated with that federal investigation,” Acree said.

He declined to provide specifics about the information given to federal investigators, but said it was similar to documents turned over to state auditors earlier this year.

An audit of the foundation by State Auditor Ralph Campbell is scheduled to be released Wednesday.

Gloria Dupree, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said she could neither confirm nor deny an investigation of the foundation, named after the first black congressman elected in North Carolina, in 1875. (snip/...)

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