One affiliate deserves its own post: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Camden, NJ. It receives federal pass-through money from both USCCB Migration & Refugee Services and the International Rescue Committee. Its FY2024 federal single audit contains four separate findings across four different federal programs (HUD homeless funds, VA veterans housing, TANF, and FEMA food-and-shelter money) all describing the same scheme. The auditor's verbatim words: "several employees falsified participant documents whereby ineligible individuals with personal relationships to these employees receive assistance payments." The control breakdown was so severe the auditor stated it could not obtain sufficient evidence to support the payments at all. The organization hired a forensic investigator and notified the State of New Jersey. And every one of the four findings is flagged as a repeat of an identical finding from the prior year's audit. To be precise about scope: the documented falsification hit homeless, veterans, and family assistance programs, not the refugee grants themselves. The refugee angle is upstream. Federal rules (2 CFR 200.332) require every pass-through funding this affiliate to risk-assess and monitor it, and an affiliate with repeat falsification findings is exactly the situation that duty exists for. All of it is public record: report 2024-06-GSAFAC-0000364516, findings 2024-003 through 2024-006, auditor Wipfli LLP, at fac.gov. Pull it yourself.
