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Dori: Former Pierce County Housing Authority employee embezzled $7M

Dec 16, 2019, 4:40 PM

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A pile of trash at a former homeless encampment in Pierce County, provided by the sheriff's office in May 2018. (Pierce County Sheriff's Office)

(Pierce County Sheriff's Office)

In August, the Pierce County Housing Authority filed a lawsuit against its former finance director, Cova Campbell. They claimed that she and her husband embezzled $4 million.

Now that the state auditor has updated its investigation, it turns out it was not $4 million — it was $7 million, as KIRO 7 TV is reporting.

And it was all part of the homeless-industrial complex I keep telling you about.

What did they spend the money on? According to Q13, the couple bought seven properties in Oklahoma.

Dori: Homeless-industrial complex trades attacks for six-figure salaries

I want you to think about this. Are you working right now? Are you in a trade? Are you a blue-collar person who earns every penny you make? Are you a driver who has to deal with the traffic and impossible demands because of the sheer volume you have to deliver every single day, especially at this time of year? But you do it anyway because you work hard for your money. And you return to your employer every penny that they invest in you.

A huge chunk of your paycheck is taken away in tax dollars. And a huge chunk of those tax dollars is going to homelessness. In King County, it’s getting spent on a drag queen brought in as entertainment at a conference that is supposed to be about solving homelessness. In Pierce County, they have a finance director for their housing authority who embezzles millions of dollars so that she and her husband can buy 300 acres of property in Oklahoma.

Now the Pierce County Housing Authority claims it will “rebuild the trust of the community.” Please. You cannot rebuild something that was never built in the first place.

We all know that the homelessness industry is a scam. It’s a one-party system around here that has constructed a massive scam that leaves people like veterans with PTSD and survivors of child abuse who fell into the grips of addiction laying in the mud so that the homeless industry “leaders” can keep their six-figure jobs. After all, if a solution to homelessness is found, they’re out of a job.

You want to know why there are tarps and tents and garbage and needles everywhere that you drive? Take a look at the homeless-industrial scam and you will get your answer.

Listen to the Dori Monson Show weekday afternoons from 12-3 p.m. on KIRO Radio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the podcast here.

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