A county-funded charity failed to pursue the best deals in selling homes of incapacitated people under its supervision, relying on a small circle of investors, appraisers and real estate agents to handle sales that often weren’t offered on the open market, according to an audit released Wednesday. Two of the three charity employees assigned to help manage property sales left their jobs after investigators pointed out deals that seemed to benefit them personally.
The Inspector General report on the Guardianship Program of Dade County (GPDC) described poor recording keeping, indifference to internal rules and inconsistent practices in the relatively infrequent instances when a person under the charity’s care also had a home to sell. The non-profit, funded by Florida and Miami-Dade county, was responsible for 2,800 incapacitated people during the nearly six years covered by the audit, a time period when 60 homes were sold, according to the report.
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