Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions
Source: Guardian
GJH Global Ministries, which made its website private after inquiries by the Guardian, does not appear to have a clear purpose
Jon Swaine
@jonswaine
Sat 17 Mar 2018 01.00 EDT
One of the top officials in Donald Trumps housing department runs an opaque religious charity with a colleague who resigned from the administration when the Guardian found he was accused of fraud and exaggerated his biography.
Johnson Joy, the chief information officer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud), is part of a Christian not-for-profit in Texas with Naved Jafry, who as a Hud adviser after inquiries about his professional history.
Until this week the group, GJH Global Ministries, invited donations on its website. But it was not clear what work the group did and its mission statements and other information appeared to be copied from those of major churches. GJH was formed in 2014 but Stephen Austin, one of its directors, said in a brief interview: We literally did nothing.
Following inquiries by the Guardian, GJHs website was locked from public view. Other directors declined to be interviewed. The group last filed a tax return with the Internal Revenue Service for 2014. Churches and affiliated groups are not required to file annual returns.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/johnson-joy-naved-jafry-housing-department-religious-charity
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Naved Jafry really "padded" his resume. It seems like almost nothing he bragged about was really true.
You know, you really have to look hard in the general population to find as many rogues and scoundrels as Trump has done. Then again, that's the sort of people who would work for him.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,924 posts)If you're an incompetent grifter who's so stupid and disreputable that you couldn't get hired as a night manager at a 7-11, the Trump Administration is perfect for you.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)...is astounding! When one is exposed another surfaces that is even more despicable.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)True Blue American
(17,995 posts)Out of the Temple for cheating people?