Nebraska s auditor blasted a nonprofit meant to aid immigrants from Myanmar as a fiscal train wreck and disgrace after revealed the Karen Society of Nebraska may have improperly spent more than 99% of the government grant dollars it received in 18 months. The Karen Society, founded in 2010 to help refugees from the Southeast Asia country resettle in Nebraska, received $142,752 in federal grant dollars from July 2023 to December 2024 — and examiners in Auditor Mike Foley s office questioned all but $478 of those payments, they said in Tuesday s audit. Much of those grant funds — $127,494 — were used to reimburse contractors who provided health programming to refugees, including the...
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Nebraska nonprofit meant to aid Myanmar immigrants a fiscal train wreck, auditor says
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