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A New Orleans organization that received state dollars to provide job training and placement and help prevent evictions spent nearly half of it to hold charitable bingo games that cost more money than they brought in, according to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.
Its audit, made public Monday, looked into how the National Association for African American Economic Development spent the $400,000 it received from the state last year. Records show it spent $199,568 to hold bingo games intended to raise money for its mission, even though that activity wasn’t allowed under its cooperative endeavor agreement with the state…