Your tax dollars:
Someone sent me this short article yesterday from the Washington Post Crime scene blog. If it weren’t so serious it almost reads like a spoof!
A Fairfax County anger-management counselor pleaded guilty Tuesday to assault on a federal officer for pointing a loaded firearm at a deputy U.S. marshal.
The incident occurred near the Annandale apartment of Jose L. Avila, 57, on Jan. 25. A federal marshal wrote in a court affidavit that he and another marshal had parked their sport-utility vehicles in designated parking places on Americana Drive, and that Avila pulled up behind them, honked his horn and was waved around them. But Avila allegedly drove past, turned around, drove back to them and aimed a loaded 9mm pistol at the two marshals, who were in plainclothes, the marshal wrote.
Avila, a single parent and former priest, worked for Northern Virginia Family Service and before that for the Center for Multicultural Human Services in Falls Church.
And, they say the Tea Partiers are violent! The guy could get 20 years!
What interested me more was to find out if the organizations he worked for were involved with refugees and received funding from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Sure enough! The Center for Multicultural Human Services doesn’t exist anymore (I bet there is a story there), it was for some reason folded into the Northern Virginia Family Service. By the way, you have a lot of choices in Northern Virginia for domestic violence counseling, here.
I found that Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) gets at least a grant from ORR for torture victims, here. Actually this list is useful because it gives you some idea of where the domestic violence/victims of torture hot spots are. I’ll search for NVFS’s Form 990 later because I can’t find any annual report at their site. I’d like to know how much government funding this organization receives. But, guess what! I did find this! Did you know you can get a car fixed with a grant from NVFS?
What a coincidence, torture counseling must be all the rage these days. Yesterday I had planned to post this story from Portland, Maine about a big federal grant they got to help victims of torture and it’s on the same list of grantees at the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Now I won’t have to post it separately. Portland must be having a problem just as Fairfax County obviously is with domestic violence and torture victims or why else give out federal grants.
For more on ORR’s Torture program, go here.