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HURLEY: New Era stimulus spending reveals less than 2 jobs created

By Matt Hurley | Special to Ohio Watchdog

The Obama administration gave New Era Broadband $408,009 in stimulus funds to provide "broadband and high speed broadband services to over three thousand unserved residences, businesses and critical facilities in rural Appalachian Meigs County Ohio, providing economic development opportunities and facilitating emergency services."

But New Era is one of many companies on the non-compliance list for failure to tell the government how it spent stimulus money. My own analysis shows New Era made the following payments:

• $303,089 for equipment and infrastructure purchases presumed to start the project, records of which were not on the recovery.gov;
• $5,250 for the consulting services of Morlan Enterprises, a West Virginia-based construction company;
• $9,310 for the accounting services of Cotner & Cooley CPA, which also does taxes;
• $5,425 to Christopher Tenoglia for legal services. It appears he was engaged to assist with the pre-application paperwork. Tenoglia is a judge in Meigs County's Court of Common Pleas. Gov. John Kasich appointed him to the bench. Before his appointment, he was the law director for the City of Pomeroy.

The above accounts for $332,384, leaving $66,738 in expenses that have not been documented.

Read Matt's entire article: http://watchdog.org/42646/hurley-new-era-stimulus-spending-reveals-less-than-2-jobs-created/