Known Criminal Spends Federal AIDS Money on Strip Club

by Dave Blount | September 1, 2011 2:00 pm

If there’s any more room in the Your Tax Dollar at Work file, stuff this one[1] in it. From the District of Criminals:

D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan has accused a District HIV/AIDS service provider of spending nearly $330,000 in federal tax dollars to open a strip club.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Nathan said Miracle Hands Inc. promised the city it was using the cash to renovate a warehouse in Northeast for use as a job training center for residents with HIV/AIDS. Instead, the warehouse was turned into the Stadium Club, a strip club that continues to operate, the suit says. Miracle Hands shares an address with the club, according to the company’s website. …

Attempts to reach Miracle Hands owner Cornell Jones were not successful. Jones is a self-described former D.C. drug kingpin with convictions for narcotics distribution on his record.

Our federal overlords turned over $330,000.00 of our money to a known criminal to open a facility supposedly catering to people who spread AIDS. Anyone surprised the money was not spent constructively?

It is well past time for Big Government to get out of the do-gooder business and every other business that the Constitution does not specifically enumerate as its responsibility.

On a tip from AC. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[2].