State slaps Charlestown non-profit for shoddy spending; demands some of its money back

The Herald broke the news on Life Focus Center Inc. Read Auditor Suzanne Bump's report. Sample:

We reviewed the documentation LFC maintained relative to 189 of these expenses totaling $28,436 and found that all of these expenses were questionable in that they were either inadequately documented or did not appear to be directly related to LFC's program activities. For example, numerous purchases were made by the Executive Director at various restaurants, many that were out-of-state, located close to the town in which he lives and/or were for purchases made on weekends with no documentation that identified the business nature of these expenses. Examples of questionable purchases include a $52 purchase at a New Hampshire liquor store and 13 expenses totaling $610 that appear to have been incurred during a vacation that the Executive Director took in Florida. Further, many of these purchases, including those for restaurants, were improperly charged as program supply expenses against LFC's state contracts.