The District government is largely to blame for millions of unaccounted-for dollars in grant money given to a nonprofit group that has worked to reduce gang violence, city lawmakers said Monday. At a D.C. Council committee hearing that examined a recent audit of Peaceoholics, Ward 1 Councilman Jim Graham said that the city agencies that doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money should have acted more responsibly. The audit, released in August, concluded that the organization was not guilty of any wrongdoing or misuse of funds.
The organization has been granted more than $13.7 million over the past five years from seven city agencies, but those agencies had not held the nonprofit accountable for how those funds were spent, the audit said.
