HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - State prosecutors say four current or former board supervisors from a northeastern Pennsylvania town are under arrest for misusing a $50,000 grant to help build an emergency management structure and then trying to conceal the misuse.
The attorney general’s office filed the charges Friday against the four Exeter Township residents.
Prosecutors say township officials applied for and received the grant in 2006.
However, $17,000 allegedly went to contractors who had personal relationships with the defendants, inflated their costs and billed for unrelated services and materials. The project was canceled after just a stone pad was constructed and the defendants filed paperwork in 2008 that allegedly sought to conceal the money’s misuse.
Evidence also allegedly shows that two of the defendants didn’t perform hours of labor that they reported in 2007.
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