Lack of due diligence can be costly

It takes considerable nerve for DETAMC, the former job-training success story on East 21st Street, to sue City Hall for $11 million, after the company’s alleged misuse of government funds and mistreatment of employees led the feds to investigate. The lawsuit’s claim of racial motivation seems a particular stretch. But the city should be faulted for its lack of due diligence on this venture. After all, it continued to funnel federal money to DETAMC after the state had seen fit to cut it off. What we said in an editorial early last year still goes: “DETAMC’s story should serve as a pointed reminder of the need for clear-eyed decision making, good oversight and swift response to red flags when they arise.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman

3 Comments

  1. Joe Williams
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 5:01 am | Permalink

    Yeah! I agree, but it seems the race card trumps them all.

  2. Ray Thomas
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 7:33 am | Permalink

    Of course it does, Joe..when all else fails, blame your own screwups on someone else and play “victim”. Like the latest flap from some ’sunflower’ group demanding videos in patrol cars.

    According to that group, when a white guy is pulled over for going faster than the speed limit, it is speeding. But when a black guy is pulled over for exceeing the speed limit, it is ‘racial profiling’.

    Yep, the racial card is alive and well, and kept alive by racists like the people that filed the lawsuit.

  3. Damoon
    Posted November 18, 2005 at 8:31 am | Permalink

    Hey, whatever works! God knows white people NEVER try to manipulate in order to gain something or to get themselves out of trouble!!