COVID-19 Relief Fund donations end up in dumpster
Compton native Andre “Dr. Dre” Young and Jimmy Iovine donated $200,000 to the Compton United Relief Fund with explicit donation instructions on how the funds were to be spent. The April 2020 letter detailed $30,000 were to be used to support a network of food banks, that would provide 1,000 units of packaged groceries per day, feeding 4,000 (1,000 families of 4) and meal packages delivered to seniors on a weekly basis. Residents are crying foul because the city has selected one organization to handle the food bank and other resident found the food in a dumpster at a local park.
“Donors to the relief fund gave instructions that only certified food pantries could receive their funds,” said Mayor Aja Brown during a recent city council meeting. The Compton Chamber of Commerce has been awarded $140,000 between June and December 2020 to operate a food pantry.
The only certified food pantries in Compton are the Salvation Army and Tamarind Ave. SDA Church.
The CCC food bank was initially run out of the Compton Careerlink on Bullis Rd, but was moved to Leuders Park.
A resident happened to be near Leuders Park and saw a dumpster filled to the brim of expired food.
“I wanna believe that there’s a reasonable explanation for this huge dumpster full of produce at Leuder’s Park where the city food pantry is stationed” said Tia Walker. “These are not empty boxes. WTF??”
A member of the CCC board, Fred Castro, took to social media to blame residents for not picking up the food, while residents commented that had they known about the food giveaways, they would have participated.
“Where are they promoting the giveaways?,” asked Ree Ree. “I only stumbled across one because it was at a park where I live.”
2UrbanGirls initiated a public records request on who the donors were to the relief fund, and how those funds were spent.
- $140,000 to Compton Chamber of Commerce
- $45,000 to Propharmatech for rapid COVID tests
- $19,000 to Vail Dunlap on back to work kits
- $44,000 to Everytable for meals
- $36,000 on branded face masks
- $8,784 to Kitchenrestock.com for three reach in freezers
To view the full list of vendors, checks and backup documentation of who received funds click here.
The city was only able to provide documentation showing the only donors to the relief fund were Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine.
**this article has been updated to correctly report the Compton Chamber of Commerce state record shows they are in good standing with the Franchise Tax Board**
Ya been played by this article. Think about it. Why not have better pictures. Perhaps of the actual food inside the boxes. Why not get better close ups of inside the boxes or even inside the dumpster. If it was me and I wanted to Inform my city of wrong doing, believe i will go to the fullest to get real facts. People, don’t be fooled by attention hungry articles.
I’m 5’2 and the pictures are from my vantage point. I’m not a damn photographer nor a scam artist. You don’t know me at all “anonymous”.
Don’t forget the money that compton also received from the state
https://www.sco.ca.gov/ard_payments_coronavirus_relief_fund.html
About 1.2 million if read the report right. Where did that money go?! Layoffs!!
This shit really makes me fucking angry at the bullshit transparency that is feed to citizens.
There should be an investigation !
Am I the only person saying this? Someone on the City of Compton’s Council-members should be asking…demanding for an investigation and halt all future funds.
Give the funds to a worthy and good organization with a solid track record. Stop being political on council’s decision. The community recognizes who is being favored.
Are you sure those boxes are full? Zoom in. Each is a torn open box and ALL you see is cardboard
Yes. I saw for myself the quality eatable fruit and vegetables.
It is shameful that this food could have been distributed amongst organizations that truly care about the people in Compton.
Branded facemasks?!
During the hey days of the pandemic, stores closing, people losing jobs, food banks cropping up all over, AND we giving $36000 for homemade facemasks with a fuxking logo…..
This shit would be so funny if reality was of the pandemic wasnt so real
It’s Black Girl Magic all over again! This time they’re not making Black men disappear-it’s money and food! Poof!
“A member of CCC” had the audacity to BLAME RESIDENTS for not picking up the food !!! On social media !!!!!!! This “person” deserves identification and grand recognition ! Shame on that person and anyone else who agrees it is the people who didn’t appear who are at fault!!!!!! That food was thrown away by them or by others they told to throw away the food is an offensive, revolting UNFORGIVABLE action that should tell us they should never, no not ever, be allowed a position in charge of anything !!!
It is Very disgusting that that person still has any friends, position, title !!!!!!
That we are supposed to believe the “well connected” “social media savvy” person didn’t know how to pick up and dial a phone and get the word out there was food available tests the concept that we have the ability to believe they just learned to reach out and reach masses .
There are close to 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles County certainly the people who threw the boxes in the dumpster have seen one or two !!
Clearly the produce was not delivered with a 2 hour or rotten limit and we can’t blame the heatwave so they could have spent a day finding a home in need of food.
More than the produce is rotten on this situation!! We can all guess they have never wondered what their children would eat….. perhaps it is time they loose their job and perhaps they may understand how foolish their action and even more the attempt to blame others for their failure.
Wish you would repost that social media post with picture and name of the inconsiderate fool.
And this is the dumb ases , endorsing Compton city officials, 😳 wow! If you guys are not so bright,imagine the people you endorse.Only in Compton!!!Wake up CPT residents, and get this money hungry so called nonprofit organizations out of here.
I feel the City Chamber of Commerce and Mayer and CCC should all be held responsible instead of allowing them to shift the blame and point the finger to anyone else, and have them to perform COMMUNITY SERVICES.
In the city, city of compton, they pop block
Mayor and City Manager need to be held accountable for all those LIES…
Mayor has 11 nonprofit organizations 🤔
Fed’s needs to investigate this Crime to the fullest…Aja is no difference then all the past Mayors who went to Jail.
HONESTLY ANDRE AND JIMMY SHOULD HAVE JUST HANDLED THAT SHIT THEMSELVES AND THEN WOULD HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES IF THINGS WEREN’T HANDLED IN THE MANOR IN WHICH THEY FELT FIT,YA DIG!?
Thanks for the info Frfr.
I wonder how long they’ve been throwing away food until they were caught?!
I’m sure their friend Chris Bailey got the $36,000 for masks. SMH! Where are the mask? That’s a lot of mask.
He received $10,000
No you are wrong. $10,000 for 2000 branded face mask and I donated an extra 500 mask.
It is a shame you can’t trust your own City members to do business right that’s why we as the black community are always dogged dog on are own I guess all the money is gone. Don’t nobody know nothing