Gang expert Delacy Davis, hired as a consultant by Government in 2006, is accused of improperly spending federal grant money in the United States.Mr Davis is alleged to have misused cash earmarked for the ‘Boycott Crime Campaign’ by taking 26 Bermudians on a trip to a bowling alley and basketball game in Newark.He falsely claimed $4,050 federal cash for that outing in April 2006 on top of the $87,500 his private company was paid by Bermuda Government, prosecutors in the States claim.Mr Davis is being sued by the United States government along with non-profit black empowerment group Women in Support of the Million Man March and its executive director Frederica Bey; they are said to have spent nearly $200,000 in federal grant money and written fictitious reports and proposals to cover it up.Mr Davis, a motivational speaker with 20 years service with East Orange County Police in New Jersey, visited the Island to speak with police and Government at the request of then-Home Affairs Minister Randy Horton in 2005.He returned on a six-month contract in 2006 as part of an anti-gang action plan featuring public forums, school visits and community work.Several community leaders expressed surprise when David Burch refused to renew his contract after succeeding Mr Horton as Minister in November 2006.Courthouse News Service in the US reports Mr Davis aided Ms Bey and her non-profit group in their misspending and mis-accounting.Mr Davis, also a former director of the East Orange Police Athletic League, was paid $4,050 by WISOMMM for nine ‘conflict resolution’ workshops he was to conduct for the Boycott Crime Campaign.But prosecutor Paul Fishman’s complaint states: “In fact, however, Davis billed WISOMMM $4,050 for a ten-day ‘workshops and training’ event whose attendees were 26 Bermudians and only about 15 EOPLA youth and staff.“The Bermudians flew into Newark, and were taken to some cultural and sociological events, as well as to restaurants, the movies, an aquarium, shopping trips, a bowling alley, and a professional basketball game.“Not only were these activities largely unrelated to the activities described in the Boycott Crime Campaign grant and provided primarily to non-local participants, but Davis was also separately compensated for conducting them.“In about October 2006, the Bermuda Government paid Davis’ private corporation approximately $87,500 for ‘consulting’ with them on gang issues.“This payment was apparently based at least in part on Davis’ ‘work’ on the same ‘workshops and training’ for which he received compensation from WISOMMM via the Boycott Crime Campaign grant.“On the second such occasion, WISOMMM paid Davis $20,000. The EOPAL invoiced $20,000 to Boycott Crime Campaign, but has not justified the payment of the $20,000 to Davis.“Upon information and belief, Davis used some or all of the Boycott Crime Campaign funds he received to pay for various gifts and loans to EOPAL.”Mr Fishman says these included loans of $13,000, $27,900 and $2,200, a donation of $50,000 and a payment of a $13,000 tax lien on EOPAL property.The complaint continues: “Defendants WISOMMM and Bey have never explained or provided justification for these payments to Davis, or the exact nature of the relationship between Davis, WISOMMM and the EOPAL at the time of such payments.“Davis was subsequently hired to be the principal of the WISOMMM charter school.”WISOMMM’s mission is to create, promote and develop educational, cultural, civic and athletic programmes to “enhance and empower the quality of life for the people in the Greater Newark Community”.It received a $345,325 grant through the Department of Justice to fund the Boycott Crime Campaign, which is designed to organise and fund after-school activities for at-risk youth in the Newark area.Mr Fishman states more than $197,477 of the grant was spent on unapproved items.The United States is seeking damages for violations of the False Claims Act, common law fraud, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, payment by mistake and civil conspiracy.Bermuda’s Ministry of National Security declined to comment yesterday.