{"id":1934524,"date":"2023-05-20T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-misrepresentation-new-york-lawmaker-says-he-was-lied-to-about-homeless-veterans-being-displaced-by-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T07:15:10","slug":"gross-misrepresentation-new-york-lawmaker-says-he-was-lied-to-about-homeless-veterans-being-displaced-by-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gross-misrepresentation-new-york-lawmaker-says-he-was-lied-to-about-homeless-veterans-being-displaced-by-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Lawmaker: Homeless Veterans Displaced by Migrants, a &#8216;Gross Misrepresentation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgross-misrepresentation-new-york-lawmaker-says-he-was-lied-to-about-homeless-veterans-being-displaced-by-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1934524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Charitable Organization Founder Accused of Fabricating Story About Homeless Veterans<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The founder of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, Sharon Toney-Finch, claimed that 20 homeless veterans were kicked out of hotels near New York City to make room for migrants seeking asylum. The story gained widespread attention and bipartisan condemnation, with both Republicans and Democrats calling for investigations. However, State Assemblyman Brian Maher has now accused Toney-Finch of fabricating the story and misleading him.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>Maher has asked the attorney general of Orange County and New York\u2019s district attorney to investigate potential misconduct by the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation. He has also spoken with individuals who were said to have been veterans displaced by migrants and someone who transported the migrants from the hotels they were staying at. Maher was left waiting for three hours at a bank to meet up with Toney-Finch to verify that the foundation had paid for shelter for the veterans. A receipt that was purported to be from the organization that had previously been given as proof appeared to have been altered, according to state lawmakers who spoke with the Times Union.<\/p>\n<h3>Disputed Claims<\/h3>\n<p>Several hotels implicated in the initial report have disputed Toney-Finch\u2019s claims, saying that her narrative was not true. Todd Solloway, an attorney for Crossroads Hotel, said in a letter that there \u201care not now, and never were, any group of veterans at the hotel and certainly none were kicked out to make way for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-immigrant-asylum-seekers-fleeing-nyc-squalor-for-safer-canada\/\" title=\"Report: Immigrant Asylum Seekers Fleeing NYC Squalor for 'Safer' Canada\">migrant asylum seekers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cMy client and their staff are receiving serious threats \u2014 including death threats \u2014 from all over the county as a result of his false accusation. And, this morning, the staff at the Hotel were forced to call 911 to seek protection against someone who was menacing the staff at the hotel, claiming he was looking for the veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Maher has worked with Toney-Fitch and her foundation several times over the last few years. He said that he asked for her to provide evidence several times in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-releases-new-batch-of-subpoenas\/\" title=\"Jan 6 Committee Releases New Batch of Subpoenas\">multiple phone calls<\/a> as he began to believe he may have been lied to. \u201cTheir gross misrepresentation of the facts surrounding our homeless veterans is appalling,\u201d the lawmaker added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to verify claims before spreading them, especially when they involve vulnerable populations such as homeless veterans and migrants seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>State Assemblyman Brian Maher has accused the founder of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation of fabricating a story about homeless veterans being kicked out of hotels to make room for migrants.<\/li>\n<li>Several hotels implicated in the initial report have disputed Toney-Finch\u2019s claims.<\/li>\n<li>Maher has asked for investigations into potential misconduct by the foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to verify claims before spreading them, especially when they involve vulnerable populations such as homeless veterans and migrants seeking asylum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>misled about homeless veterans being evicted from New York hotel rooms to accommodate migrants. The founder of the charitable organization is accused of fabricating the story. State Assemblyman Brian Maher confirmed that he was misled about the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1934525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[27185,10753,4586,3914,5371,27184,4873],"class_list":["post-1934524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-displaced","tag-gross","tag-homeless","tag-lawmaker","tag-migrants","tag-misrepresentation","tag-veterans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}