Air America scandal breaks in MSM - GoreTV probably won't be covering
(courtesy Michelle Malkin)
Coverage now by:
Washington Times editorial page
New York Sun (must read)
The top executive at a Bronx youth organization said yesterday that the former director of Air America Radio received more than $800,000 in loans for himself and the radio network from the nonprofit organization while serving as its development director.
Some of the transfers, according to the president of the Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club organization's executive committee, Jeannette Graves, occurred when the development director, Evan Montvel Cohen, who for a time served simultaneously as the liberal radio network's director, appealed to the organization for two loans worth $35,000. Another member of the executive committee said Mr. Cohen told the executive director of the organization that he needed the money to pay for chemotherapy for himself and other medical expenses for his ill father.
Ms. Graves said that Mr. Cohen also received another $213,000 loan for Air America in a check that was approved without her authorization and stamped with an imprint of her signature, and that the club wired more than $400,000 to him without her knowledge.
Mr. Cohen, who no longer is employed by either Air America or Gloria Wise, and who has not been charged with a crime, could not be reached for comment. (emphasis mine; the original amount reported was $500,000)
And if the Space Shuttle mission coverage on NASA TV gets too intense for you, you might want to check out Current, the television network masterminded by Al Gore, which debuted this weekend.
Or maybe not. Kevin at WizBang has more on this pioneer broadcasting effort, which is sure to become the Oxygen of the 21st century.
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