{"id":4820,"date":"2019-12-16T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2019-10-15T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T16:48:45","slug":"federal-officials-are-looking-in-to-how-the-black-economic-union-of-greater-kansas-city-spent-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4820","title":{"rendered":"Federal Officials are Looking in to How the Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City Spent Tax Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sherlock-holmes-147255_1280-674x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4821\" width=\"96\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sherlock-holmes-147255_1280-674x1024.png 674w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sherlock-holmes-147255_1280-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sherlock-holmes-147255_1280-768x1168.png 768w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sherlock-holmes-147255_1280.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><figcaption>Image by Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 2018, Special Agent Joseph Lorek from the U.S.\nDepartment of Housing and Urban Development emailed Stuart Bullington, the\nformer assistant director of Kansas City&#8217;s Neighborhoods and Housing Services\nDepartment, asking for an accounting of all the federal money given to the\nBlack Economic Union of Greater Kansas City (BEU). Bullington responded with a\n2014 contract between BEU and the city to improve the Lincoln Building, the\nhistoric building BEU used to own. The contract included $100,000 of federal\nmoney, $75,000 of which those funds were being budgeted to upgrade the\nelevator. Five years later the elevator has still not been repaired. BEU was\ngiven two contract extensions to complete work on the Lincoln Building. In\nFebruary 2015, the city gave BEU an additional $71,500 for the first extension.\nIn an email from Bullington to Lorek, BEU spent less than $24,000 of the\n$100,000 in federal money and less than $39,000 of the $71,500 in Kansas City\nsales tax money fixing up the Lincoln Building. &nbsp;BEU sold the Lincoln\nBuilding to Henry Service in 2017 for $750,000 after receiving roughly $387,000\nin federal stimulus money, $171,500 in federal and city money, and a $400,000\nloan. Tax records show that salaries and other employee benefits increased from\n$7,540 in 2015 to $79,361 in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need to speak to an attorney about a financial matter\nor fraud, call our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at\nHoorfarlaw.com <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2018, Special Agent Joseph Lorek from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development emailed Stuart Bullington, the former assistant director of Kansas City&#8217;s Neighborhoods and Housing Services Department, asking for an accounting of all the federal money &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4820\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1124,1125,1123,197],"class_list":["post-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-accounting","tag-black-economic-union-of-greater-kansas-city","tag-corruption","tag-department-of-housing-and-urban-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}