Baton Rouge Cats-Fraud at home

This BR area transportation company known as CATS is just as fraudulent as the Somalian day care centers in MN. Their yearly budget is $48M and their rider revenue is $1,115,000 with total revenue being $2M including $500,000 for advertising on the buses. Trial lawyer ads mostly. Visit www.brcats and look at their budget.

There are roughly $30M IN LOCAL TAX revenues, $8M federal dollars and another $10M in infrastructure revenues. Most of the local revenue is from property taxes. My property tax bill includes about $700 for CATS.

Today in the Advocate a former Metro Councilman Cleveland Dunn, Jr. has been indicted for stealing $50,000 from CATS for consulting services. All of the board members of CATS are black and if you drive around and look at the deplorable conditions of the bus stops you have to feel sorry for any body who actually rides the buses.

The game plan has been replicated all over the country, Get the funds to help the poor disadvantaged people, shame the people who can afford to pay taxes, steal 75% of the money by employing family members and generate consulting and professional fees for your friends. Some limited value is delivered to those who actually need the services. It’s an organized industry and it’s all fraud with no shame to those who steal the money and deny quality service.

At $1.75 per ride as charged by CATS the $48M budget costs the public about $70 per ride using the $1.15M rider revenue figure. We as a community have to root out this fraud and get some common sense back in play. This is going on all over our country. The fraudsters could care less about the poor and disadvantaged and are rather preying on them and the gullible tax payers. This has to stop. We have to pay more attention. We could buy all the legitimate CATS riders UBER or Lyft accounts that way the ride would be dependable, safe and on time. We would probably save $30M. $25/ride vs. $70.