IG Report: Governor Misused Funds: Updated
Governor ignored"checks and balances" by diverting funds Legislature authorized for road repair.
Gov. John P. deJongh, Jr.
(Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with the full color, unmarked version of the IG report on the Mafoliegate investigation and includes color photographs of the Estate Mafolie renovations. Be patient – the file takes a while to load.)
Crucians In Focus has obtained a copy of the US Department of the Interior Inspector General’s report concerning Governor John P. deJohngh’s use of public funds to construct a guardhouse, security fence and driveway/parking lot at his private Estate Mafolie residence on St. Thomas.
According to the report, the investigation concluded, “We found that the funds used for the purpose of providing security at your private residence were set aside for road repairs in the Virgin Islands by the Legislative Branch of Government. In using those funds, the Executive Branch of Government improperly diverted roughly half-a-million dollars of specifically earmarked public funds and usurped the authority of the Legislative Branch of Government.
“Under Virgin Islands law, only the Legislature is authorized to determine how public funds can be spent,” wrote Mary L. Kendall, Acting Inspector General.
The Governor has until February 16, 2010 to respond to the report.
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Foncie needs to pay his legal bills for assaulting the young lady who filed charges against his sorry self. I’d worry about that if I were him.
Anonymous 5:25,
Have you been living in cave without any human contact? You must be. Because if you weren’t you would know what everyone else knows. That the charges against Donastorg were a set-up to get Donastorg out of the Governor race.
DeWolf and Mr. Lolo ‘I will fight with a woman too’ plan has backfired. I hope Mapp has the sense to stay away from Willis.
Lolo was sporting all inside Mapp Headquarters on the Day of the Agriculture Fair. CIF had the picture on this site.
Everyone has the right to support who they want, that’s a private matter. We just need to mind our own business, didn’t you say you got some heavy unnamed weights supporting you out of Frederiksted?