(hat tip: Booker Rising ). Embattled U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) ended weeks of dodging yesterday, taking to TV to insist he’s in the dark about the gone-missing money from a Hurricane Katrina charity fund he championed. In the liberal Democrat’s most extensive remarks since a series of New York Post stories investigating New Yorkers Organized to Assist Hurricane Families (NOAH-F) — the Katrina fund-raising arm of a local development corporation he helped create — Rep. Meeks was adamant that poring over the books was not his job.

His disavowal came after weeks of dodging comment — including canceling a previous NY1 interview — after The Post broke the story that NOAH-F had doled out only $1,392 of the at least $31,000 it had raised for Katrina victims. Five years after promising that “every dime” of the money raised would go to the hurricane’s refugees, Rep. Meeks said he was just as curious as anyone else about where the funds had gone. “I, like you, want to know where the money is,” he told NY1. Federal prosecutors are also wondering, and have launched a probe into NOAH-F.

After intense scrutiny following The Post‘s reports, Rep. Meeks earlier this month suddenly said the funds went instead to help hurricane victims who had relocated to a Radisson hotel in Queens. His team later said they were referring to his own office’s work at the hotel, not the fund’s. However, a story in yesterday’s Post — in which several charity organizers and victims were interviewed — found little evidence of any NOAH-F relief work at the Radisson.