Former Boston Housing Authority official charged with using grant funds for travel, meals and penis pills

Alfred Davis, 70, of Lynn, was indicted today on larceny and forgery charges for allegedly using some $20,000 in philanthropic grants to the BHA for travel expenses in Las Vegas, New Orleans and Barbados, expensive meals, collectible coins, a mattress and supplements to help him maintain erections, authorities announced today.

Investigators from Boston Police, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, the state Inspector General and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development teamed up on the investigation into what happend to a $125,000 grant awareded the BHA in 2008 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help seniors living in BHA apartments improved their health.

Davis, at the time director of elder services for the BHA, never told his bosses about the grant, authorities say. However, a 2007 Bay State Banner article about the grant includes a quote from the BHA.

While he did use much of the money for its intended purpose, he

Is alleged to have misused $20,000 for his own personal use, making a series of ATM withdrawals from the grant account totaling $5,400 and receiving approximately $9,900 directly from the foundation after he submitted a forged invoice for a senior fitness program that had already been funded, prosecutors said. Davis used some of the grant funds to purchase taxi vouchers for seniors to travel to appointments at a community dental clinic, but later presented the clinic with receipts for the cab fares and requested reimbursement for the cost of the trips. The clinic paid Davis approximately $5,222 in travel and other reimbursements that he was not due out of funds from a separate grant that had been awarded to the clinic by the Sunshine Lady Foundation.

His arraignment on two counts of larceny over $250 and one count each of forgery and uttering has yet to be scheduled, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.