BART oversaw $350,000 Salvation Army program that treated one person, audit finds

A BART train at the Pleasant Hill station in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

The Bay Area Rapid Transit Agency funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars into a homeless outreach program run by the Salvation Army that resulted in just one confirmed unsheltered person receiving its services, according to a inspector general report released Friday.

The report is part of a handful of investigations at the transit agency released Friday afternoon, which document allegations of wage theft, opaque spending, and one former BART employee nabbing $2.2 million in contracts from the agency two months after

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