Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank is cutting ties with one of its largest member agencies after the charity uncovered discrepancies with invoices Feed Scarborough provided to support grant funding and reported those and other financial management concerns to police.

Daily Bread’s board of directors decided not to renew Feed Scarborough’s membership agreement last week, so it will no longer receive food deliveries or funding from Daily Bread after its membership expires at the end of this month.

CBC News reviewed that report along with corresponding invoices, corporation records, property records and emails, which together raise a number of concerns about Feed Scarborough’s financial spending and management.

Those issues include $18,000 of invoices Feed Scarborough provided Daily Bread to support grant funding which the vendor has no record of, more than $100,000 of expense claims paid to then-board chair, now CEO, Suman Roy that were self-approved, and using grant money to buy $10,000 worth of food from Roy’s own company.

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[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why is it always services for the most vulnerable that are pillaged by the greediest of scum in leadership positions?

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Because people look at the poor as less than human so it's fine to scam them. Same reason why the government doesn't run this shit themselves.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Because the most vulnerable don't usually have the resources to uncover or fight against the abuses.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

So people gaming the system under the auspices of assisting the citizenry are still out there and still strong. This has been the case for decades. That is why corporate charity businesses were booming in the 1990's. There is big money in the poor and suffering.