BREAKING NEWS AND UPDATES

"The city of Stonecrest entered into an agreement with a company formed during the pandemic to disburse some $6 million in federal CARES Act money. But the report says the company was run, in part, by a city officials - a company the report indicates may have made more than a half million dollars off the deal. The report indicates numerous instances where people with ties to Stonecrest city hall also got portions of the federal money" (Richards, 2021, April).

"But a bombshell investigative report released this past week revealed the relief money disappeared into a complicated tangle of Stonecrest city employees, agencies and third-party companies" (Hansen & Estep, 2021, April). 

"The report states that some of the mismanagement found include potential conflicts of interest, a scheme where city staff members and officials "instructed grant recipients to send a portion of the funds they received to third-party corporate entities," and "inconsistencies and other schemes that may indicate criminal behavior"" (The Champion, 2021, April).