A couple of New York newspapers, the Sun and the Daily News, report the latest on the investigations into an apparently unauthorized trip to Cuba taken by students at the Beacon School.
The most interesting tidbit is that the trips may have been organized and funded by the notoriously pro-Castro Pastors for Peace/Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization.
The Sun reports:
The Interreligious Foundation is headquartered on West 145th Street. The group's Web site says the American government "says you can't go to Cuba and see things for yourself. We say you should!"As part of a court settlement in 2000 with the Treasury Department, the Interreligious Foundation agreed it would not be eligible to receive authorization to provide services in connection with travel to Cuba.
The city's investigation into the trips was stalled when the Interreligious Foundation went to court to oppose subpoenas it had received from the city's special commissioner of investigation for New York City public schools, Richard Condon.
Last week, a judge, Judith Gische of state Supreme Court in Manhattan, upheld the city's subpoenas.
Those subpoenas request information including permissions slips, itineraries, and payments or contributions received from students and educators, the decision said.
In court papers, the foundation has not confirmed that it was involved in arranging the school trips.
The Beacon School's Web site was on the blink, so it could not be determined whether Nathan Turner, the idiot teacher whose students took the trip, is still on the faculty.
(H/T to Babalú and Cuban Triangle.)
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