PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The state is demanding the company that ran two troubled group homes in Pawtucket repay more than $182,000 after an audit report released Wednesday found questionable and disallowed expenditures and incomplete, inaccurate or nonexistent records.
Among the state’s findings into the Blackstone Valley Youth and Family Collaborative:
Poor record-keeping of youths’ whereabouts.
Unexplained rental payments in differing amounts for the facilities, which are owned by the company’s executive director.
Thousands in rent and taxes paid on a burned-out property owned by the executive director.
Unexplained extra payments to the executive director and several other staffers, while support staff were underpaid by 15.5 percent.
A $26,500 “partners’ draw” paid to the…
