Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 millionPosted in Articles, Economics, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2019-07-10 17:36Z by Steven |
Claiming to be Cherokee, contractors with white ancestry got $300 million
The Los Angeles Times
2019-06-26
Adam Elmahrek, Investigative Reporter
Paul Pringle, Investigative Reporter
Two years ago, when the mayor’s office in St. Louis announced a $311,000 contract to tear down an old shoe factory, it made a point of identifying the demolition company as minority owned.
That was welcome news. The Missouri city was still grappling with racial tensions from the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, in nearby Ferguson. After angry protests, elected officials had pledged to set aside more government work for minority-owned firms.
There was only one problem…
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