This is what happened: Where I work, we are in direct competition for the same grant money. A city council member who is retired from where I work, knowing my affiliation with BSA, left the book of every agencies request on my desk. It is public information. After reading our councils grant, it was apparent that it should have been titled "Creative Writing 101, Creative Budgeting 102". I began a series of inquiries through our scouting email network as to who at the council the grant author was, and how to contact him with my concerns that my economically depressed scouts were not benefitting from this grant as was claimed. I have copies of every email and every reply, including the ones that are self-incriminating to the council. Because I do the grant reports for where I work, I was aware that the answers they were giving me were bold faced lies. I finally had an opportunity to meet the grant author in person and introduced myself, shared concerns. He made a few notations on a pad and assured me he would get back to me real soon. I never heard from him again. So, I went to city council, whose job it is to decide how to distribute the funds. There is also a city council member on the scoutreach committee, and another whose son is the scoutreach executive (and therefore indirectly financially benefits from the funds received-making him ineligible to vote on the distribution, which he had in the past been able to do because no one checked him on it.) So, I publicly addressed the city council, gave them all packets of email communication, pointed out all the discrepancies, and at the end of the city council meeting they voted on the distribution of funds. The first thing they did was cut my BSA councils grant award by $5,000.00, then took another grand from each request and gave it to my employer. Then things started going downhill. It was not published in a newspaper. It aired on our local cable government TV channel. But, I still have the packet I made, and if you would like I could scan it and send it to you as an attachment.