Sunderland gentoo



bbc1 730 , about dodgy financial payments within Sland gentoo ?
Gentoo corruption, social services ineptitude, gagging orders and allegations of corruption in the council. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in some shady mafia- run former satelite state of the USSR.
 
Giving a million to the deputy boss when he resigned does sound a bit dodgy, like.

As does doing 400,000 worth of work on his Durham (note, Durham, not Sunderland) house for free.
 
Giving a million to the deputy boss when he resigned does sound a bit dodgy, like.

As does doing 400,000 worth of work on his Durham (note, Durham, not Sunderland) house for free.
Didn't Peter Walls get a massive pay off too?
 
They did get to buy Sunderland council's entire housing stock for basically a year's rental income. If they'd opened it up to competitive bidding instead of handing it over to a bunch of ex-council people in a fait accompli I'm sure they could have made more money for the council than that. There definitely would have been one or two higher bids like. Plenty of people would have agreed to maintain at least the standards/rents that Gentoo signed up to and would have offered more than a few thousand a property.
 
They did get to buy Sunderland council's entire housing stock for basically a year's rental income. If they'd opened it up to competitive bidding instead of handing it over to a bunch of ex-council people in a fait accompli I'm sure they could have made more money for the council than that. There definitely would have been one or two higher bids like. Plenty of people would have agreed to maintain at least the standards/rents that Gentoo signed up to and would have offered more than a few thousand a property.
7 grand per house I think I read somewhere
 
Having worked for Gentoo's forerunner the PWD for 10 yrs early 80's onwards, everyone from top to bottom was on the fiddle, corruption was indemic, when I started one of directors had been clinked & another left the UK for Saudi to escape prosecution, basically running a construction company with council labour , materials & plant. My gaffer at the time was involved but kept a book on what went on & when the shit hits the fan he grassed the lot & kept his job. The dodgy building jobs still kept going afterwards & Jimmy kept note in his book. I'm no loopy Len fan club member, but it's been rife at the council for years & it's just passed its way through to Gentoo, big pay offs & backhanders. Feel sorry for the tenants, suckered again by false promises & rising rents.
 

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