Orange County Nonprofit Will Pay $1.7 Million to Settle Charges of Falsifying Records

The nonprofit Horizon Cross Cultural Center will pay more than $1.7 million to settle charges that it falsified records and overbilled local agencies for providing transportation services to elderly Orange County residents, according to a settlement agreement finalized last week. The director of Horizon's transportation services and a project manager falsified trip records and billed both the county and city of Garden Grove for bus trips that never occurred, according to an internal investigation report conducted by the Orange County Transportation Authority that was also made public last week.