SACRAMENTO / $1.1 million in dubious spending by nonprofits / State auditors report grant funds used for questionable deals

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$1.1 million in dubious spending by nonprofits
State auditors report grant funds used for questionable deals
Christian Berthelsen, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, March 10, 2005

Sacramento -- Administrators of nonprofit groups spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in state grant funds on questionable deals, and in one case used taxpayer funds to pay for personal expenses, according to a state auditors' report released Wednesday.
The questionable deals included payment by one nonprofit administrator of $60,000 to an architecture firm he owns for work on a historic restoration project in Los Angeles, and payments of more than $586,000 from a Hemet (Riverside County) foundation "