Somehow, this doesn't surprise me:
Public money making its way into private hands by the hundreds of thousands of dollars? This must be capitalism at work, ey?
Let's see what they got themselves into out in NYC.
From the New York Post:
Comptroller Brad Lander's office raised the alarm about the hefty spending earlier this year, asking the DOE about the shocking figures, according to a May 30 letter obtained by The Post.
About $1.17 million has been spent since 2022 with nearly $750,000 this past year on Fusion East, according to the comptroller's numbers.
That's right!
The education department spent $750,000 at this restaurant last year:
The DOE only spent about $5,300 in 2022 at Fusion East, but that number skyrocketed the following year to more than $81,000, according to the May correspondence between the comptroller and DOE.
The figure then jumped to $470,686 before reaching the massive new amount in 2025.
THEY MUST HAVE REALLY GOOD FOOD!
Fusion East's owner, Andrew Walcott, is described by the New York Post as "politically connected." And they are not lying.
Walcott serves on the mayor's Small Business Advisory Commission and Veterans Advisory Board, and he also serves on the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce executive board, but the restaurateur denied his civic involvement has anything to do with his restaurant's big payday.
The schools did use these orders for staff meals, school lunches, and events, but the numbers here are a bit wild. According to the owner, schools would order hundreds of these meals at a time.
It's also being reported that Walcott has opened another location in Brownsville, and operates at least two food trucks.
Regardless of what the investigation shows, you have to wonder how deep the racism goes here.
Imagine the headlines if the skin colors were switched:
"NYC Department of Education spends $750,000 at Chick-Fil-A under guise of supporting white businesses."
Some people might call that illegal and wrong!
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