Since news broke of the federal lawsuits, Connections has not returned calls or emails seeking comment and clarity on what employees are doing to ensure improprieties do not continue. The nonprofit on Tuesday again declined to comment.
Connections also is seeking to seal some of its creditors contact information, specifically employee records the nonprofit says that if they were released publicly could cause privacy concerns or be used to locate survivors of domestic violence or stalking who have otherwise taken steps to conceal their whereabouts, according to one of three first day motions filed April 19.
Former Connections employees have been key to uncovering the nonprofit s improprieties. The lawsuits filed by Weiss, which were piggybacked by Delaware s Department of Justice, came from a whistleblower complaint. Other employees came forward in 2019, as detailed in a News Journal investigation.
Amid fraud allegations, Connections files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy Amanda Fries, Delaware News Journal
Headlines April 20, 2021
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One of Delaware s largest providers of addiction and behavioral health services quietly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, less than two weeks after the federal government slapped Connections Community Support Programs with lawsuits saying the nonprofit defrauded the government out of more than $4.5 million.
Connections finances are such that once the organization pays its administrative expenses it will not have any money to pay the thousands of unsecured creditors it owes money to, according to the bankruptcy filing. The nonprofit noted it owes between 10,001 and 25,000 creditors, with its top 30 creditors owed nearly $30 million collectively.
They need to stand up : As protests erupt over another police shooting, family of Lymond Moses still want answers Jeff Neiburg, Delaware News Journal
Demonstrators demand county police name and arrest officers involved in Lymond Moses death
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Amanda Spence saw the video.
She watched the final moments of Daunte Wright s young life unfold through the lens of a camera affixed to the chest of a law enforcement officer – the same way she s watched, over and over again, the last movements her husband, 30-year-old Lymond Moses, ever made. Everything makes me cringe inside, she said Wednesday during a small protest outside the New Castle County Police headquarters.
Delaware News Journal
The Delaware Department of Justice has asked the courts to block the former police chief of Newport from becoming an elected commissioner of the town, stating his 2019 conviction for misdemeanor official misconduct disqualifies him from holding office.
A Delaware Online/The News Journal story published Monday reported that earlier this month Michael Capriglione received the most votes – 32 of about 1,000 residents – for an open seat as commissioner, a position that votes on town spending and other issues alongside two other commissioners and the mayor.
He is set to be sworn in on Thursday evening, but on Wednesday, Attorney General Kathleen Jennings filed paperwork in New Castle County Superior Court asking for his election to be nullified because of the crime that ousted him from the Newport Police Department, which he led for nearly four decades.
Delaware News Journal
Delaware had the highest foreclosure rate in the country this year, according to a nationwide realty data analysis.
One in every 1,705 housing units in Delaware had a foreclosure filing in the first quarter of 2021, according to the report from ATTOM Data Solutions.
Of the state s three counties, Kent County saw the highest foreclosure rate at the start of this year, with one in every 1,281 housing units seeing a foreclosure filing. New Castle County saw one in every 1,691 and Sussex County saw one in every 2,094.
While the First State ranked first in terms of its foreclosure rate this past quarter, it was 31st in the total number of foreclosure filings, according to the data.