The clinic featured in an episode of 'Queer Eye' defrauded Austin Public Health in the amount of $417,000, the city auditor says.
A COVID-19 vaccine is administered at a Central Texas Allied Health Institute clinic in March 2021.from Austin’s Office of the City Auditor found a nonprofit defrauded Austin Public Health in the amount of $417,000 during contracts related to COVID-19 response.
Jereka Thomas-Hockaday co-founded CTAHI as a medical training school in 2019, with the goal of helping people from underrepresented backgrounds establish medical careers. During the pandemic, it expanded to add a COVID-19 clinic in East Austin. It received three contracts from APH to coordinate COVID-19 testing, vaccinations and related workforce training.
Additionally, the report shows evidence that 11 out of 22 contract claims submitted to the city include expenses that were falsified by editing prices and dates on receipts and invoices, with matching changes made to bank statements and business ledger entries. Doctored expenses identified in the report include around $362,000 in medical supply purchases from a company in Houston, as well as “costs for IT equipment, payroll, security services, rented lab space and childcare.
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