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ce etn Sa a OS ee CN NO Meximafia, Vast Swindle Suspected © Washington Post Service . . SACRAMENTO — Officials “voice growing concern that mil- , tions of dollars in state, federal and local funds for social pro- grams are being diverted through- out California into the hands of Chicano-run, Mafia-style organiza- tions. Their concern was sparked by the Feb. 17 murder near the Sac- ramento Metropolitan Airport of a South. Pasadena woman. Ellen Anne Delia had been shot. gang- land-style, three times jn the back of the head. : - Later, it became known that Mrs. Delia, the estranged wife df the operator of a halfway house in Los Angeles, was on her way hee to tell officials what she knew - about the misapplication of feder- al and state funds aud fraud in so- cial programs in the barrios. A ’ briefease of documents, which she ‘ said supported what she knew, was missing when her body was found. No one knows just what she had ‘to tell, Her husband, himself a sus- pect in her murder, later reported- ly told health department officiass and legislators that she had pog- sessed canceled checks from { operators of drug-rehabilitation ‘programs to gang figures. amounting to as much as $1,000 month per counselor, that go into the pockets of Chicano mobsters. In addition, methadone report- ediy is being siphoned from drug treatment programs and sold on the street. “It's bound to be going on wher- ever there are programs Jike this, in all the cities," said a law en- . forcement. official who asked mot to he identified. “That's where _ «The gangs themselves were 170 [naicare page, name of newspaper, city and state.) San dose MeRcvay Sen Jose, Cane, Pace } é cee: a)mlistt Edatton: Avihor: Editor: Tatie: Character: or Claassifiestion: Submitting Office: “7 - i_j Beng investigsted