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   From: Davecross@kremlin.ru   
      
   Read the following out loud to yourself: $850 million in   
   American federal tax dollars is “missing” and New York City   
   Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, can’t seem to   
   account for the mass sum of money which was given to her non-   
   profit “mental health project.”   
      
   Who is this woman who ‘Lost’ nearly a $Billion in taxpayer   
   dollars, is Also Married to the Mayor and Hates President Donald   
   Trump?   
      
   I can see why she hates Trump. This is the sort of graft and   
   stealing of taxpayer money which the swamp is made of. What is   
   really amazing is her ‘program’ hasn’t been stopped after she   
   “can’t find” $850,000,000.00 of New Yorker’s tax money? How is   
   that possible? Well, for starters, she’s married to the Mayor –   
   that helps a whole lot – and the Mayor is, of course, a liberal   
   Democrat.   
      
   The program is called ThriveNYC and reports suggest they have   
   failed to keep accurate records of their spending and initiative   
   achievements, upon which they appear to be falling well behind   
   from their targeted goals.   
      
   Thrive keeps few records on their accomplishments or their   
   spending, making it impossible to locate the money. Eight   
   hundred fifty million dollars is nothing to sneeze at. No one is   
   saying she took any money, but it does show she failed to   
   provide oversight on the program. To make matters worse, they   
   don’t even know if the program was successful or not.   
      
   Democrat Mega Scandal: NYC Mayor De Blasio Office Involved in   
   Bribery, Prostitution and Illegal Weapons!   
      
   Multiple journalists and watch dogs have been painstakingly   
   researching and reporting on this, but amazingly, the program is   
   not only still going – they’re going to up the amount they   
   ‘spend’!   
      
   From The Daily Mail:   
      
   Where has $850m gone? Bill de Blasio’s wife can’t account for   
   staggering amount of taxpayer money that the NY Mayor gave her   
   for mental health project. Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray   
   cannot explain where $850 million given to the mental health   
   program she champions has gone, according to reports.   
      
   In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC   
   have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s   
   achievements – and data that has been collected shows it lagging   
   well behind targets. Despite that, the program has been granted   
   an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend   
   $1billion over five years.   
      
   Wtf?   
      
   From Politico:   
      
   Since its inception in 2015, ThriveNYC — the city’s sprawling   
   $850 million initiative to address a variety of mental health   
   issues — has operated without much scrutiny or accountability.   
   Thrive said it has developed a list of 417 metrics to measure   
   how effective the program is moving forward, but asked to assess   
   its impact so far, Politico said the data was piecemeal and   
   showed a largely failing picture.   
      
   Run by the mayor’s wife and closest adviser, Chirlane McCray,   
   ThriveNYC sought to tackle issues like substance use, depression   
   and suicide. It is meant to target low-income individuals who   
   are often priced out of mental health care because those   
   services are typically not covered by insurance. Thrive also is   
   meant to focus on communities — African Americans, Latinos,   
   military veterans — who are less likely to seek care for mental   
   health problems…   
      
   The city would not make McCray available for a recent interview.   
   In an interview with POLITICO in August, she acknowledged Thrive   
   had not yet released data on its performance related to its   
   mental health hotline, NYC Well.   
      
   “We do have some outcomes. I don’t know if we have them   
   available yet, but we certainly are tracking what people are   
   calling about, what they’re asking for, and as much demographic   
   information as we can,” McCray said. “People are allowed to call   
   anonymously, and the calls are confidential. We don’t have   
   everything, but we do have quite a bit.”   
      
   Thrive has publicized some data through the mayor’s annual   
   management report of all city agencies, beginning in 2016, but   
   it encompassed only a fraction of the program’s scope.   
      
   POLITICO spoke to more than 16 people, including elected   
   officials, advocates, representatives of community   
   organizations, researchers and consultants who said that   
   although it is crucial for the city to invest in mental health   
   resources, they did not know whether Thrive was successful and   
      
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