Meanwhile in America

[Deleted member 28206]

http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:368d6422ffdc47c2bd4d507bd8ad9b78

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Tennessee man and his family used much of the $187 million it collected for cancer patients to buy themselves cars, gym memberships and take luxury cruise vacations, pay for college tuition and employ family members with six-figure salaries, federal officials alleged Tuesday in one of the largest charity fraud cases ever, involving all 50 states.

 

[tim gabbott]

Sick ...let's hope they catch a terminal one

 

[Boss_Blue]

Charity begins at home though.

 

[COYBL25]

Surely all the bling and Bentleys would've been a bit of a clue ?

 

[Hellerad]

I used to work for one of the state AG offices working to crack down on these folks.

Happy day.

 

[FTY]

Sick ...let's hope they catch a terminal one

Let's not.

 

[Sapie88]

I am shocked and appalled by this.

Absolutely disgusting behaviour, I mean seriously ffs, who'd go the gym when you have all that money.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Just like 95% of most charities to be fair..

Only 5% of money raised goes to the actual people needing it.

 

[orchard]

Sure it's that low mate? I thought it was around 15pc, which is bad enough like.

Just like 95% of most charities to be fair..

Only 5% of money raised goes to the actual people needing it.

 

[Groucho]

Just like 95% of most charities to be fair..

Only 5% of money raised goes to the actual people needing it.

Sure it's that low mate? I thought it was around 15pc, which is bad enough like.

Always struck me as odd the way 'non-profit' organisations can pay a whacking great big salary to a CEO.

 

[orchard]

Always struck me as odd the way 'non-profit' organisations can pay a whacking great big salary to a CEO.

It tends to be justified by the need to compete with other Corp's in the business sector.
I'm quite sceptical of charities nowadays like, whether it be distribution issues, 'Corporate partners', rights to pharmaceutical patents resulting therefrom, and other stuff.

Makes me appear a right tosser like, but peer pressure can sniff my nads. I do however volunteer quite a lot of my time to local community projects.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Always struck me as odd the way 'non-profit' organisations can pay a whacking great big salary to a CEO.

There's a company by me called Care NW or something, possibly charity registered, the two guys running it drive brand new range rovers..

I'd be tempted to start a charity! Haha

 

[DualityNSNO]

 

[mezzrow]

Kudos to those who made the case - keep up the good work. These will return as dung beetles in the next life. Hope we can find some prison time for them in this one.

Meanwhile... why do I think of this lot?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Charity Shops don't pay business rates and only have to give a % to the chosen charity and it is a low % as well.


I think some women from Skem got locked up years ago for exploiting a charity in the way those above did but obviously not by a sum anywhere near as close but it was funding a fairly lavish lifestyle.

It may well have been that they had nothing to do with the business either but were the directors even though their husbands ran it all, obviously must have known what was going on though.