Secretive religious charity run by top US housing officials raises questions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian


GJH Global Ministries, which made its website private after inquiries by the Guardian, does not appear to have a clear purpose

Jon Swaine

@jonswaine
Sat 17 Mar 2018 01.00 EDT

One of the top officials in Donald Trump’s housing department runs an opaque religious charity with a colleague who resigned from the administration when the Guardian found he was accused of fraud and exaggerated his biography.

Johnson Joy, the chief information officer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud), is part of a Christian not-for-profit in Texas with Naved Jafry, who as a Hud adviser after inquiries about his professional history.

Until this week the group, GJH Global Ministries, invited donations on its website. But it was not clear what work the group did and its mission statements and other information appeared to be copied from those of major churches. GJH was formed in 2014 but Stephen Austin, one of its directors, said in a brief interview: “We literally did nothing.”

Following inquiries by the Guardian, GJH’s website was locked from public view. Other directors declined to be interviewed. The group last filed a tax return with the Internal Revenue Service for 2014. Churches and affiliated groups are not required to file annual returns.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/17/johnson-joy-naved-jafry-housing-department-religious-charity

[dawg day]

1. where does Trump even find these guys?

Naved Jafry really "padded" his resume. It seems like almost nothing he bragged about was really true.
You know, you really have to look hard in the general population to find as many rogues and scoundrels as Trump has done. Then again, that's the sort of people who would work for him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He attracts them, like shit attracts flies.

If you're an incompetent grifter who's so stupid and disreputable that you couldn't get hired as a night manager at a 7-11, the Trump Administration is perfect for you.

[dalton99a]

3. Low life scam artists

[RestoreAmerica2020]

4. Like cockroaches, they keep coming out of thw woodwork. The level of criminality and corruption

...is astounding! When one is exposed another surfaces that is even more despicable.

[Angry Dragon]

5. WWJD??

[True Blue American]

6. Throw them

Out of the Temple for cheating people?

[keithbvadu2]

7. Religion and politics use each other to gain power and wealth.

[KWR65]

8. This appears to be a money laundrying operation tied to Joel Osteen.