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Chicago Group Misuses Government Funds To Try To Lobby For More Money For Itself

Chicago Group Misuses Government Funds To Try To Lobby For More Money For Itself

The Chicago-based community organizer group the National Training and Information Center received more than $200,000 to train employees of other community organizations, but instead used the money to send its own employees to Washington D.C. to lobby for more funds. The misappropriated cash was part of more than $3.1 million in total government funds the NTIC received between 2000 and 2002.