Allegedly anti-gay "cult" leaders may have pulled a fast one on Brooklyn-based Assemblyman Felix Ortiz.

Aesthetic Realism applied for $4,000 of state-funding to help their work at Raices, a largely Latino senior center in Brooklyn.

It seemed like an honorable cause, we're sure, because the group had never before received monetary assistance during its 13-years of service. Unfortunately Ortiz didn't do his homework. Former AR members claim the group's nothing more than a cult that preys on the elderly - and the gays.

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