ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: OBAMA'S PASTOR WRIGHT!WHERE IS THE KATRINA MONEY?

Back on September 19, 2005,  Trinity United Church of Christ ran a plea for cash on their bulletin. They were directly taking contributions/donations for "Hurricane Katrina" demanding that the  check be made payable to Trinity United Church of Christ. "We are not taking clothing or non-perishable items".  JUST CASH....why not the Red Cross as the "Pay to", who monitored the money, where did all the cash go, who monitored Rev. Wright and his non-profit church ?

Due to the overwhelming response to the needs resulting from Hurricane Katrina, Trinity United Church of Christ is not accepting any clothing or non-perishable items. The church is accepting all monetary donations, however. Please make all checks or money orders payable to Trinity United Church of Christ. Write Trinity United Church of Christ on the "Pay to" line. On the line located next to the word “Memo” in the bottom left corner of the check, please write Katrina Relief. Mark your donation on Line 99 of your giving envelope. Thank you for your understanding and most importantly for your gifts and acts of kindness!   (more here)

In 2007/2008. the Trinity United Church built a $1 million mansion for Wright (where did all this cash come from?)

Construction continues on the $1 million Tinley Park home Rev. Jeremiah Wright will move into after having it purchased by Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.

TINLEY PARK | Welcome home, Rev. Wright

Trinity United Church of Christ, 400 W. 95th Street, Chicago, is listed as the landowner on the permit.  In 2007/2008 the Trinity United Church of Christ is building the Rev. Jerimah Wright a new home, Construction continues on the $1 million Tinley Park home Rev. Jeremiah Wright will move into after having it purchased by Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where did all the cash come from, "Hurricane Katrina" money maybe ?  Wright, who has retired from preaching, could not be reached for comment. A business manager with the South Side church did not return a phone call seeking comment. (more here).

There is no listing for Trinity United Church of Christ as giving any money to "Hurricane Katrina Releif Fund". Are they  on some other list, not on the same list as Oprah's Angel Network out of Chicago IL or like any of the 100 or more IL contributors?

If the contributions of your organization are not represented here (below), or are represented inaccurately, please send your press releases or other documents to katrinarelief@fdncenter.org

Complete nation wide list at the link below, I have picked up all the IL contributors and posted them below. (Go here for more)

 

Oprah's Angel Network (IL)

$1,000,000

America's Second Harvest

Community Trust (IL)	$638,292	America's Second Harvest ($136,533), American Red Cross of Greater Chicago ($172,533), American Red Cross ($41,943), Baton Rouge Area Foundation ($198,533), DePaul University ($500), Emergency Fund for Needy People ($5,000), Habitat for Humanity ($41,500), Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless Program, Inc. ($500), Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago ($1,750), Long Beach Police Department ($500), Oxfam America ($10,000), Salvation Army ($25,000), United Jewish Communities, Inc. ($2,000), and the United Way ($2,000)
Circle of Service Foundation (IL)	$250,000	Jewish United Fund ($125,00) and Union for Reform Judaism ($125,000)

Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation (IL)

$10,000

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (IL)

$5,390,000

Enterprise Corporation of the Delta ($1,125,000), Community Foundation for the National Capital Region ($50,000), Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights ($100,000), Housing Partnership Network ($125,000), NHP Foundation ($250,000), Southern Development Bancorporation ($1,125,000), Southern Financial Partners ($125,000), Southern Mutual Help Association ($1,125,000), Volunteers of America ($1,125,000), Social Science Research Council ($240,000)

Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation (IL)

$10,475,125

Acadiana Outreach Center ($100,000), America's Second Harvest ($700,000), American Red Cross ($500,000), AmeriCares Foundation, Inc. ($100,000), Architecture for Humanity ($250,000), Arkansas Rice Depot ($100,000), Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center ($35,000), Bay Area Food Bank ($30,000), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Gulf Coast ($125,000), Captain Hopes Kids ($15,000), Carpenters Helper ($100,000), Catholic Charities USA ($500,000), Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Antonio ($25,000), Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Atlanta ($50,000), Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Little Rock ($75,000), Childrens Hospital, Inc. ($250,000), Church World Service, Inc. ($500,000), CinCHouse.com ($250,000), Communities in Schools, Houston ($21,000), Cooperative Feeding Program, Inc. ($25,000), Dallas Furniture Bank ($50,000), Direct Relief International ($100,000), Family Guidance Center of Alabama ($300,000), Family Service Association ($175,000), Family Service of Greater Baton Rouge ($250,000), Foundation Communities ($100,000), Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Inc. ($100,000), Habitat for Humanity of Houston ($110,000), Heartland Human Care Services ($50,000), Houston Food Bank ($100,000), Jackson County Civic Action Committee ($500,000), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ($200,000), Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans ($350,000), Lutheran Social Services of the South ($200,000), Macedonia Outreach and Career Center ($25,000), Mennonite Disaster Service ($500,000), MHG Development Foundation ($250,000), Midtown Assistance Center ($40,000), Mississippi Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics ($170,000), Mississippi Counseling Association ($400,000), Montgomery Area Food Bank, Inc. ($100,000), Multipractice Clinic ($40,000), NEA Foundation for Improvement of Education ($300,000), Neighborhood Centers ($120,000), Northwest Louisiana Food Bank ($20,000), Prevent Child Abuse Council, Inc. ($75,000), Primary Health Services Center ($100,000), Salvation Army, National Headquarter ($649,125), San Antonio Food Bank, Inc. ($30,000), Save the Children Federation Inc. ($200,000), Second Harvest of Greater New Orleans ($100,000), Service Over Self ($15,000), Share Our Strength ($180,000), The Shepard Center of Central Louisiana ($85,000), Society of Saint Vincent de Paul ($115,000), Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, Council of the United States ($300,000), Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta ($50,000), Visions of Hope, Inc. ($75,000), Volunteers of America ($100,000), Wilkinson Center ($50,000), and the YMCA of the Greater Houston Area ($50,000)

Polk Bros. Foundation (IL)

$70,000

Baton Rouge Area Foundation ($20,000), Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights ($25,000), Oxfam America ($25,000)

Prince Charitable Trusts (IL)	$25,000	America's Second Harvest
Public Welfare Foundation, Inc. (IL)	$510,000	Louisiana Environmental Action Network(LEAN) ($25,000), SHARE Foundation ($25,000), Environmental Support Center ($75,000), Fair Housing Agency of Alabama ($10,000), Innocence Project New Orleans ($50,000), Saint Thomas Health Services ($50,000), Louisiana Bucket Brigade ($25,000), Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights ($25,000), Dillard University ($50,000), Foundation for the Mid South ($150,000), Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana ($25,000)

Siragusa Foundation (IL)

$10,000

American Red Cross

Washington Square Health Foundation (IL)

$35,000

Hurricane Katrina Disaster Capacity Health Care Grant Fund

Joyce Foundation (IL)

$20,000

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Pastor Wright, can we get an accounting of where these funds went?

UPDATE: It gets stickier (as in fingers).

The radicals by Mick Dumke

Want to know how hateful and destructive the Trinity United Church of Christ has been under Reverend Jeremiah "God damn America" Wright? So much so that over the last two decades it's received millions of dollars in grants from both Democratic and Republican administrations at the federal, state, and city levels.

Go here for a  sampling from the city of Chicago (which includes federal and state grants the city administers). Check this out! $1.2 M of that money was spent on "not clear?"

Bill queries,"TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST CHILD CARE CENTERS, INCORPORATED brings in millions of dollars in Federal, State and local grants every year, would anybody in their right mind set up an ex-wife or ex-husband to run "their" multi-million dollar cash cow when they were giving up the reigns (on paper) ?

What does she know?

OT but related: Hal picked up on an interesting factoid when reading the Church bulletin," What I found equally interesting is that on page 15 of the link The Trinity United Church of Christ was having an "Opt Out" Policy meeting for Chicago area schools to keep military recruiters out of public schools.   How can they do this and still keep their tax free status?"

Comments

[chsw]

That's good investigative work, following the money.

chsw

[pythagoras]

With any luck the good Senator Jeremiah Wrong, er, Wright will be screaming "God damn America" from behind bars between license plate-making sessions.

[CelticCoyote]

Good catch - follow the money.

I'm wondering about the line that says - "Mark your donation on Line 99 of your giving envelope."
LINE 99?? Just how big an envelope do you need to put a singel check into??

[jusa]

Would be pretty funny if a table had that many jewish organizations listed for donating, and the holy man Wright embezzled for a mansion. Given who were supposed to benefit from Katrina money especially.

[shmujew]

reform jewish judaism is not judaism and they should stop using JEWISH in their name ....they are garbagemen from hell

[lilbean]

looks to me like that article needs to be forwarded to the justice dept.

[sambo4]

Aren't churches, since they're tax exempt, held to some kind of public accountability that the public can demand to see the books? Maybe we should just start sending the church letters demanding an explanation of how much money has been sent to New Orleans.