ISBL Asshat of the Week: Kenneth Gaughan

That’s Kenneth Gaughan up there; he’s kinda cute, right? And he’s gay. He’s also this week’s Asshat of the Week because he has proven that gay people are just like straight people—other than who we choose to love; we can be nice, we can be lying thieving pigs.

Kenneth Gaughan is the latter.

Gaughan is a former assistant superintendent and contracting liaison for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC, and has been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $2.1 million in funds for personal use from two federal COVID-19 relief programs. He obtained the money by submitting loan applications for more than a dozen non-existent companies through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program and the federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans program.

And did he start a small business? Save a small business? Invest in a small business? No, Kenneth Gaughan used the stolen pandemic funds to buy himself a $300,000 yacht, a $1.13 million townhouse in D.C., and a $46,000 luxury sports car.

In addition, because grifters gonna grift, in September 2018, Gaughan was also arrested and charged in a separate embezzlement scheme alleging that he stole nearly half-a-million dollars from the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. from 2010 to 2018.He was indicted on those charges, but a US District Court judge dismissed them in December 2019 on grounds that the prosecution was incorrectly carried out in Maryland rather than D.C.

And a few months later he was stealing from programs to help out people affected by the pandemic.

There’s a special place in Hell for people like Kenneth Gaughan, and there are special places in prison for him, too; perhaps bent over a workout bench in the yard while his new boyfriend, Bubba from Cell Block D, shows him the, um , ropes.

Kenneth Gaughan. ISBL Asshat if the Week.

Washington Blade