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An LA-based homeless services provider paid its CEO $1.6 million in salary and vacation expenses over two years, even though the executive lived in Hawaii rather than overseeing operations in the city.
An LA-based nonprofit providing homeless services paid its CEO $1.6 million over two years in salary and vacation expenses, even though the executive was living in Hawaii rather than managing operations in Los Angeles. The board apparently approved the arrangement.
This is straightforward waste of charitable money meant for homeless services. Instead of going to shelters, food, or case management, funds went to compensate an absentee executive living out of state. It's also a governance failure—a board that approved this arrangement wasn't acting in the organization's interest. The setup suggests either the nonprofit's leadership doesn't care about accountability or the organization is so dysfunctional that nobody checked whether the CEO was actually doing the job.
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