Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel, whose day job is as the executive director of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness, said that she will resign from the nonprofit later this year.
During her dual roles, the Anchorage Assembly has awarded millions of dollars to the agency, which is the coordinating group for many of the various charities who serve people living without secure shelter.
Zaletel, who is vice chair of the Assembly, is also leaving her position on the Assembly, as she did not run for reelection in April.
Last week, Must Read Alaska published the 2023 audit of her homelessness coalition, which revealed many flaws in financial management of the organization, some of which were serious.
Zaletel is also the subject of a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination by a former employee, who said the workplace environment was toxic and the organization was financially mismanaged.
Zaletel has been a polarizing figure in local politics, particularly because of her dual roles as appropriator and the head of a nonprofit that gets millions of taxpayer dollars and appears to have little to show for itself.
In fact, during her tenure, there has been a 54% increase in the homeless population of Anchorage, far from the organization’s goal of homelessness being “rare, brief, and one-time.”
Zaletel is also known for never putting her hand on her heart or saying the Pledge of Allegiance at the beginning of Assembly meetings. She has sponsored an ordinance, however, mandating that the woke “land acknowledgement” statement be posted prominently on the wall wherever the Assembly meets.
Follow the money.
Ditto.
the graft of the politburo too good?
Some people spend their lives trying to help those in need, and improve the community in which they live.
Others just try to find fault and tear them down.
And most of our politicians spend their lives profiting on public grant funds off the human misery and ever growing homeless industry.
The more spent the richer the elite become and the problem is just a growth industry.
Some people pretend to help others in need but only help themselves and abuse their position and play power tricks. It’s unfortunate others are gullible or willfully ignorant and unable to see it.
So. It’s okay to take 100K a year for the last 5 years while doing absolutely nothing to help the bums. The “fault” here us that she’s just like any other politician who gets rich off of the common W2 employee. Not only was it her NGO but she was on the governing body that funded it. If that’s not at minimum a conflict, it’s definitely dirty as a bums rear end. She was outed and is quitting, not because it’s the right thing to do but because she was caught. So yeah, I’m pleased she was “torn down”.
Hey Dog, when was the last time you actually donated to MRAK?
Two months ago.
When there is fault to find, it isn’t hard to point it out. But of course, you cheer on corruption so it is only fitting you would make such a comment, agent.
Have you seen the “help” you are even speaking about? You cannot live lives for those who don’t or won’t live it for themselves.
Maybe instead of throwing money at everything and being expecting the problem to fix itself, you can go pick up all the garbage left behind by the vagrant.
Dawg, there also are those who find a path to enrichment by appropriation of public funds into their own pockets.
Of course since Zaletel only had the best of intentions, you’re cool with the dumpster fire she helped ignite?
Virtue signal much?
And some prey on the sympathies and naiveté of their fellow man to the detriment of society. Dog, did you miss the part about a 54% INCREASE in homelessness, at the cost of MILLIONS of your grandchildren’s dollars?
…And that appears to be your role here, Dog, just tearing down people who are trying to make the world a better place. As for your friend Meg Zaletel, she has done handsomely ‘helping the poor’. She makes at least $150,000 a year (according to the IRS, ‘https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/461156688_202206_990_2023060921425737.pdf , her predecessor made $156K, no documents available at IRS since she took over).
Plus the $60,000 she gets for sitting on the assembly, plus the $500 monthly assembly stipend.
That pops her into a high-income tier in Anchorage. She enriches herself and her allies off of her play-acting as Mother Teresa. This is the scam perpetuated by so many NGOs that are siphoning from the economy with no demonstrated positive outcomes. Zaletel is Queen of the Scam. You are her vassal.
U mean Others like her pocket the money and then run
Tell you what, Whidbey.
List for us all the good that Meg’s group has done. And, not vague answers, real numbers.
Like…
How many homeless are now productive members of society instead of living in the streets.
What is the homeless population in Anchorage now, versus before her group started working.
How much per homeless does her organization cost the taxpayer, versus the cost before it started.
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Some actual real good that has happened, and I will gladly retract any criticism I have of her organization.
Uhhhh you’re joking right?
All you do is tear down anyone or anything on the right.
Your whole existence on this platform is trash talk, snark and critique.
Holy S—- man, this is one of the most hypocritical posts you’ve ever had and that’s saying something. Cripes.
So the report on mismanagement of funds or record keeping of funds coming out had nothing to do with her decision to flee? The audit uncovered significant problems with the group’s internal financial and governance controls, raising concerns about its ability to manage funds and maintain accountability as it works to combat homelessness. And that was 2023 so more to come.
Said the person who doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to use a real name.
Sorry, I’m not stupid. There’s always a Comet Ping Pong guy out there somewhere. And please don’t single me out, as there are many others here on the Right that use a nom de plume as well.
You cannot name one thing this bimbo did to help one single homeless person.
Nobody can name one thing that bimbo did because, guess what, she didn’t help a single soul except herself.
Well whidbey this particular individual is using her position on the city council to vote money into her own pocket. Essentially she is the bottom of the barrel, profiting off homeless people’s misery. You can’t argue this whidbey. There is nothing noble about this particular person.
I know you are not talking about Meg Zaletel
Dog, so you support massive corruption. Good to know.
This parasite is likely going into politics. As all Enders do. Running. It’s what they do. She’ll be getting her campaign support from Arabella/Soros//1630 & 907Inish#tive.
She has no talents, no accomplishments, but does have a long dark list of division, racism and conflict.
Must be another idiot relative or fellow grifter in need of a scam. Didn’t Perez-Verdia just lose a grant he was laundering?
The word “nonprofit” always struck me as a cover for its true intent: “thievery.”
Bye Bye – Good riddance (I hope).
And may you get replaced when the next vote for your slot on the Assembly comes up!
She should get in touch with Gabriel Ladoo’s lawyer.
There’s only one solution to homelessness, lock them up with mandatory treatment for drugs/alcohol, mental health treatment then reintegrate back into society for success, fail again? Go through it again. Nothing else has worked.
That solution requires a willing participant and significant investment in an asset of questionable value. Cite them, apply max penalty and offer the option of a plane ticket to a sanctuary city with the sentence to begin anew if they return.
I am wondering if we can use the old Palmer prision and let them have their own little city
Zaletel discovered the USAID taxpayer gravy train will no longer be doling out $$$ to her money laundering “nonprofit.” Will be interesting to see what shakes out with the lawsuit of her former employee, especially if that person has concrete proof of money mis-management by Zaletel.
Bronson and crew fought the Homeless Industrial Complex.
He saw the millions and millions of your dollars going into admin pockets and not to directly benefit the most needy.
He tried to use agencies like Catholic Social Services and the Salvation Army. For that, he was even attacked more than before. The only reasons the libtards on the MOA assembly could find to attack them was they are faith based…..sad reason.
The Salvation Army SHOULD be the Anchorage CoC coordinating agency, NOT the ACEH. They were dealing with drug addiction, mental illness and homelessness for decades in Anchorage before the sexy CoVid funding got Meg and crew RICH.
Take away the sexy funding and watch interest die right off.
Squirreled enough away to disappear? or enough to run for something else to ruin? or did someone establish a homeless camp in her front yard? Adios and good riddance.
The state is filled with woke parasites from the assembly to the senate in DC and should all be investigated for the whereabouts of the cares act money by DOGE.
Maybe if we could get them to spray Ivermectin in those chemtrails, we could eliminate a few of these parasites.
Hopefully we will see more of this, rats fleeing a sinking ship, get out of Dodge before DOJ shows up? Praying this is the case!
Hey, one needs to grift a large amount of public funds via being the head of a so-called a so-called “non-profit agency” in order to afford all those different giant ugly eyeglasses that are so beloved by all radical leftist extremist women. I guess they think, erroneously, that masquerading as a diurnal owl makes them appear to have a modicum of intelligence.
The sad reality is that Our Money has been stolen in a wide variety of scams….
She will re-surface on the Peltola Campaign……whatever they decide to run her as.
Come on, take the money and run, oooh yah.
I guess the old cow didnt have enough political capital to suppress the findings of the recent audit.
She has pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars during her tenure on the RICO violation that is redirecting money in Anchorage. She is getting out with what she got because the well is going dry.
I hope the feds are monitoring her movements. Wouldn’t want her fleeing the country to avoid prosecution, now would we!
Maybe she’s prepping to run for Governor?
It is truly unfortunate that there are no consequences when an elected functionary performs as poorly as has Meg Zalatel. She has lined her pockets, done nothing of public value, stood in the way of other’s attempts at progress and now potters off to suck in some other capacity. Pathetic.
Meg, you have contributed greatly to this city’s declination and have been an embarrassment to the post. Go away and never come back.
Don’t get too happy with her departure. The Left has already groomed multiple new woke reptiles to replace her.
Seems rude to kick The Meg while it’s down, but if it ever gets back up, we are so hosed.
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Was Anchorage Assembly laundering millions of dollars to The Meg’s “agency” for some purpose which has less to do with bum housing, than with sheltering illegal aliens and providing physical addresses from which bums and illegal aliens can be registered to vote, have their ballots filled out and mailed in, be signed up for Social Security, PFD’s, Medicaid, and whatever else can be extracted from federal and state piggy banks, a tiny part of which may be shared with whoever’s on the premises at the time?
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We hope the lawsuit alleging wrongful termination by a former employee, who said the workplace environment was toxic and the organization was financially mismanaged results from, or leads to, a qui tam lawsuit from which said employee could make truckloads of money if successful.
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Our fondest hope is that the former employee uses the IRS complaint process at ‘https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/irs-complaint-process-tax-exempt-organizations to persuade IRS to revoke The Meg’s “agency” tax-exempt status and order payment of back taxes since Day 1 of the The Meg’s “agency”.
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Otherwise, we wish The Meg well in its retirement, however “toxic” it may be.
Well thanks to Meg’s great leadership we lose about 50 a year on the street (1 was my nephew)
Throw in 15-20 pedestrian deaths and that’s a bit more then 1 per week.
Great way to solve the problem Meg …. in about 10 years they’ll all be gone! (except for the ones that keep coming)
Your work is done here …. good job.
Let me guess. Meg steered taxpayers’ money into ACEH from her seat on the assembly. ACEH then pushed the money into various ‘homeless assistance’ programs. Those same programs donated a portion of those funds into assembly members’ campaign coffers. However, due to faulty record-keeping, no one knows where all the money ultimately ended up. Meg will now move into a much larger, more expensive home and will leave the assembly for a lucrative job with ACEH or one of its proxies.
And the beat goes on…
How disgusting that Meg Z is taking her “credit due” for reducing homeless people. She is a piece of work and thankfully is leaving the assembly. Her faulty record keeping of course is going “somewhere” (in her pocket) and now she can move on to taller trees and browner nuts as a friend once said… what a rip off scam artist she is….