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Source: POGO
It has previously been disclosed that another office in OJP (see pic), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), did not follow the recommendations of peer reviewers when administering their National Juvenile Justice Program Grants.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) had released a report detailing the DOJ's apparent abuse of the Byrne Grant Program, the agency's highly touted effort to support local crime fighting nationwide. However the 2007 Bryne grants were awarded without peer review.
Notice the name of the person on the chart above who was the overseer of the OJJDP: Cybele Daley. Who is Cebele Daley? Daley worked in the Office of Assistant Attorney General in DOJ as Deputy Assistant.
POGO found that Ms. Daley who approved 2007 Byrne grants, is married to James Pasco Jr., the executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police. Daley left the Justice Department to become a Washington lobbyist. She represents law enforcement agencies and specializes in issues related to grant-making, according to her firm's Website.
However, there is a connection to Daley's husband position to another award under investigation.
From Washington Post:
Separately, POGO and Justice employees are raising questions about another award, in which the Fraternal Order of Police of Ohio received $603,000 in Byrne crime prevention money for the "Ohio school alert system."
In a phone interview, Daley said she lacked authority to make grant decisions at the Justice Department and instead devoted her time to congressional relations and the media. "I didn't even know the Ohio FOP had a grant."
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