Lobbyist’s salary for nonprofit questioned
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 
Another high paying salary has been uncovered in the nonprofit world. This time it comes from the all ready discussed Individual Development Inc., a Washington D.C. nonprofit that provides housing and care for many of the local developmentally disabled. It has been reported a David W. Wilmot, a well known lobbyist has been paid as much as $300,000 by the nonprofit to help turn them around. He also has been allowed to borrow an additional $300,000 from the organization. Now, IDI is funded about $12 million per year from Medicaid, a government agency that is already paying out extremely high amounts of money every year. The big problem here is that basically, Wilmot is getting his comfortable yearly salary from Medicaid, of which more of that money should be going to the individuals in need.
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