From the ArcaMax Publishing, Religious News Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/religiousnews/s-368523-420015
A former White House official was awarded a lucrative U.S. Justice
Department grant under pressure from two senior Bush administration
appointees, sources say.
The $1.2 million grant was awarded jointly to a consulting firm run by
Lisa Trevino Cummins, who previously headed Hispanic outreach efforts
for the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives,
and a California evangelical group, Victory Outreach, ABC News
reported Tuesday.
The network reported the grant was awarded amid objections from
Justice Department staff who did not believe Victory Outreach was
qualified for the grant. There was also concern that too much of the
grant was going to go to Cummins' consulting company instead of being
spent on services for children.
Cummins' company, Urban Strategies LLC, was slated to get one-third of
the money for helping Victory Outreach use the rest of the funds.
Cummins' application for the grant should have immediately "raised red
flags," a senior Justice Department official told ABC.
The official said most of the grant money should be going to services,
but that "in this case, you have a third of the money up front going
to a consulting company."