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Residents urge audit, criminal probe of EDC COVID grants; council hears public complaints
Summary
Multiple residents used public comment at the May 12 meeting to ask the council to audit COVID-related Economic Development Corporation (EDC) grant awards and to request a criminal investigation into allegedly fraudulent applications; speakers raised concerns over perceived conflicts of interest and inconsistent enforcement.
Several residents urged the La Marque City Council on May 12 to investigate distribution of COVID-related EDC emergency business grants, call for audits of grant awards and, in some cases, request criminal investigation of allegedly fraudulent applications.
At the start of the evening session several speakers named an elected official as a recipient of EDC emergency grant funds and urged transparency, an audit of recipients who took maximum award amounts, and that the council direct the police department to…
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