The executive director of West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, or VOAD, is retiring a month after testimony she gave to the Joint Legislative Flooding Committee prompted the state to refer state appropriations to the organization to state investigators. Jenny Gannaway, the executive director, admitted to taking items donated to the organization for personal use and hiring employees to be employees.
Benjamin Cisco, 31, was sentenced Thursday to three years and five months in prison and ordered to pay the $871,288 he pleaded guilty in April to defrauding the nonprofit West Virginia Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster over a 2 1/2-year period by rerouting money intended for suffering West Virginians to his personal bank account.
Lawmakers have asked the the Committee on Special Investigations, the State Auditor’s Office and the West Virginia Legislative Auditor’s Office to look into funding received by WV Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster.
West Virginia is especially flood-prone, but the latest meeting of a state legislative panel on flooding underscored that its flood resiliency framework lacks funding and is underdeveloped.
West Virginia is especially flood-prone, but the latest meeting of a state legislative panel on flooding underscored that its flood resiliency framework lacks funding and is underdeveloped.