(InvestigateWest) — An anti-trafficking nonprofit has sued an Idaho state agency, claiming that the state pulled the organization’s funding in retaliation for whistleblowing on alleged fraud and exploitation at another nonprofit. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Idaho last week by the Idaho Anti-Trafficking Coalition, comes in the wake of a series of InvestigateWest articles in July. Those articles described complaints from human trafficking victims who stayed at safe houses operated by a separate nonprofit called Community Outreach Behavioral Services, or COBS. The Idaho Anti-…
