HUD demands $654,000 from West Palm for Redemptive Life’s Coleman Park housing project
By Andrew Abramson and Kimberly Miller
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers
Updated: 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011
Posted: 8:32 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011
Homes in the 800 block of 22nd Street are part of a city program to build and rehab 60 homes in troubled Coleman Park. West Palm has spent more than $3 million in federal stimulus money.
WEST PALM BEACH — The city has been ordered to reimburse the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development $654,000 by Jan. 4 for failing to properly administer federally funded low-income housing projects run by Bishop Harold Ray of Redemptive Life Fellowship Church.
West Palm Beach officials meanwhile have ordered Redemptive Life Urban Initiatives, a non-profit associated with Ray’s 600-member church in West Palm Beach, to repay the city as much as $1.1 million. The city has been demanding documentation from the nonprofit to prove the federal money it received from the city was not used to pay board members or to hire builders without putting contracts out to bid, as federal rules require.
Turner has said it was the city’s own internal monitoring, and not HUD, that found numerous problems in the program and that the city alerted HUD it was looking into the matter.
Those problems included two instances in which the city reimbursed Redemptive Life twice for the same project after being double-billed.
Dominion Realty, the company that sold the homes that Redemptive Life built and which received commissions on the project, was owned by Tram Ventures, which was started by Ray, according to documents in Ray’s response to the city’s questions.
Keith James now a city commissioner, was the registered agent for Tram when it was incorporated. James, who defended the church leader during a city hall meeting Monday, was paid from the federal funds, according to city records.
The city’s housing department has been a mess for years, Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell said Tuesday. An overhaul has been needed in the department for a long time.” she said.
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Now you all know I am not smart enough to work for the govt. or be a city commissioner or anything but I may have raised an eyebrow B4 I plowed $3 million in federal stimulus money to a Bishop who watches over his 600 person flock in the hood and then drives home to his mansion in a gated community of multi millionaires where he watches over his realestate fraud empire and his serial refinancing.
Location Address: 11771 LITTLESTONE CT
Municipality: UNINCORPORATED
Parcel Control Number: 00-41-42-14-07-000-1100
Subdivision: STONEWAL ESTATES
Official Records Book: 09416 Page: 1263 Sale Date: Aug-1996
Legal Description: STONEWAL ESTATES LT 110
Owner Information
Name: RAY HAROLD C &
Mailing Address: 11771 LITTLESTONE CT
WEST PALM BEACH FL 33412 1621
Sales Information
Aug-1996 09416/1263 $600,000 WARRANTY DEED
6. Bed Rooms 6
7. Full Baths 5
Subarea and Sq. Footage for Building 1
No. Code Description Sq. Footage
1. BAS BASE AREA 5270
2. FOP FINISHED OPEN PORCH 108
3. FOP FINISHED OPEN PORCH 590
4. FOP FINISHED OPEN PORCH 144
5. FGR FINISHED GARAGE 672
6. BAS BASE AREA 391
11. Roof Cover CONC. TILE
15. Floor Type 2 MARBLE
Total Square Footage : 7175
Total Area Under Air : 5661
POOL - IN-GROUND
Type: MTG
Date/Time: 8/29/1996 11:09:09
CFN: 19960301294
Book Type: O
Book/Page: 9416/1265
Pages: 7
Consideration: $480,000.00
Party 1: RAY HAROLD CALVIN & BRENDA JOYCE
RAY BRENDA JOYCE (M)
Party 2: FIRST FED S&L PBS
Legal: STONEWAL EST #1 L110 L
Its party time for the Bishop!
Type: MTG
Date/Time: 5/21/2003 10:30:13
CFN: 20030294480
Book Type: O
Book/Page: 15253/1924
Pages: 21
Consideration: $565,000.00
Party 1: RAY BRENDA J
RAY HAROLD C
Party 2: CHASE MANHATTAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Legal: STONEWAL EST #1 L110 L
Type: MTG
Date/Time: 7/13/2004 13:21:19
CFN: 20040406266
Book Type: O
Book/Page: 17249/1264
Pages: 9
Consideration: $218,000.00
Party 1: RAY HAROLD CALVIN
RAY BRENDA JOYCE
Party 2: CHASE MANHATTAN BANK USA NA
Legal: STONEWAL EST #1 L110 L
Type: MTG
Date/Time: 3/27/2006 16:46:19
CFN: 20060178083
Book Type: O
Book/Page: 20108/1817
Pages: 20
Consideration: $773,500.00
Party 1: RAY BRENDA J
RAY HAROLD C
Party 2: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC
HSBC MORTGAGE CORPORATION USA
Legal: STONEWAL EST #1 L110
Type: LP
Date/Time: 2/2/2011 09:45:02
CFN: 20110039466
Book Type: O
Book/Page: 24342/1912
Pages: 1
Consideration: $0.00
Party 1: BAY HILL ESTATES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION INC
Party 2: RAY HAROLD CALVIN
RAY BRENDA JOYCE
Legal: STONEWAL EST #1 L110 L
Forgive me father for I have stolen millions in federal stimulus money and artificially inflated refi gains from my mansion along with screwing my flock. Ah yes Redemptive Life is good.
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