More financial irregularities in Alaska
Not just the PFD
Small City Solutions: How Wasilla, Alaska Uses Braided Funding to Finance Local Projects
The Alaskan city of Wasilla may have a population of just under 10,000 residents, but its influence extends far beyond its city limits. Surrounded by rural communities, Wasilla serves as a hub for…
Jeremy Grossman
In municipal finance, braided funding means taking various forms of funding and weaving them together one source of revenue with another for the same project. This allows a city to use various revenue streams to stretch their budget and make costly projects feasible.
Girl Scouts selling cookies? Are we stupid here? In other words prostitutes are flipping their ponytails to raise funds in small cities from exorbitant traffic fines, sales taxes and property taxes among other sources. You need an adult bake sale or a adult car wash for this stuff, with some very aggressive and jealous boyfriends working as cops at the local police department as well.
With Alaskans’ stolen identities, bank fraud scheme spanned from Wasilla to Kenai Peninsula, charges say
The charges say Karey McLeish, 25, and Rebekah Walker, 45, withdrew thousands of dollars using identification that bore the real account holder’s name but Walker’s photo.
Casey Grove
We're getting robbed at every cash machine in the state.
Audit of Anchorage Equal Rights Commission faults ‘excessive’ spending
The commission spent nearly $100,000 in merchandise with minimal results but also made progress reforming inefficiencies, according to the internal audit.
Zachariah Hughes
Woke director of Anchorage’s homelessness industrial complex is stepping down
Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, whose day job is as the executive director of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, said that she will resign from the nonprofit later this year. During her dual roles, the Anchorage Assembly has awarded millions of dollars to the agency, which is the coordinating group for many of the various […]
Suzanne Downing
Secret Service found two card-skimming devices on credit card machines in Southcentral Alaska during sweep this month
The U.S. Secret Service, state, and local law enforcement partners, conducted a payment card skimming and Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) fraud outreach operation Aug. 1-2 in several Alaskan cities. The law enforcement team, which included the Secret Service, Anchorage Police Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Alaska, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office […]
Suzanne Downing
U.S. Secret Service and Partners Conduct EBT Fraud and Skimming Outreach in Alaska — Anchorage Police Department
From the U.S. Secret Service Office on August 5, 2024 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Secret Service, alongside state and local law enforcement partners, conducted a payment card skimming and Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud outreach operation Aug. 1-2 in several Alaskan cities. Perso
Amanda Brimanis
The U.S. Secret Service, alongside state and local law enforcement partners, conducted a payment card skimming and Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud outreach operation Aug. 1-2 in several Alaskan cities. ¶Personnel from the U.S. Secret Service, Anchorage Police Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Alaska, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General and the Alaska State Troopers participated in an outreach operation that saw teams visit 165 businesses in Anchorage, Palmer, Wasilla, Kenai, Soldotna and Seward.
But FBI Anchorage was apparently either not invited or missing in action on this card play.