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-- The 50 worst charities in America devote less than 4% of donations raised to direct cash aid. Some charities gave even less. Over a decade, one diabetes charity raised nearly $14 million and gave about $10,000 to patients. Six spent no cash at all on their cause.

-- Even as they plead for financial support, operators at many of the 50 worst charities have lied to donors about where their money goes, taken multiple salaries, secretly paid themselves consulting fees or arranged fund-raising contracts with friends. One cancer charity paid a company owned by the president's son nearly $18 million over eight years to solicit funds. A medical charity paid its biggest research grant to its president's own for-profit company.

-- Some nonprofits are little more than fronts for fund-raising companies, which bankroll their startup costs, lock them into exclusive contracts at exorbitant rates and even drive the charities into debt. Florida-based Project Cure has raised more than $65 million since 1998, but every year has wound up owing its fundraiser more than what was raised. According to its latest financial filing, the nonprofit is $3 million in debt.

-- To disguise the meager amount of money that reaches those in need, charities use accounting tricks and inflate the value of donated dollar-store cast-offs - snack cakes and air fresheners - that they give to dying cancer patients and homeless veterans.

DikTracy6000 wrote:Without reading the article, did the Rainbow Coalition make the list?

Turdacious wrote:

DikTracy6000 wrote:Without reading the article, did the Rainbow Coalition make the list?

They're on the emeritus list for career performance.

A billion dollars of public money earmarked to help people hit by Japan's 2011 quake and tsunami was spent in areas unaffected by the natural disaster, the government admitted Monday.

Projects ranging from counting sea turtles on semi-tropical beaches, to the promotion of cheese and wine events hundreds of kilometres from the disaster zone benefitted from the largesse, a report said.

The admissions are the latest in a series of apparent embarrassments for the Japanese government, which has previously acknowledged the country's controversial whaling programme was being supported by disaster money.

The Asahi Shimbun, a major daily newspaper, surveyed local authorities around the country to find out what happened to the 200 billion yen Tokyo set aside for economic reconstruction after the disaster.

It said in 38 prefectures that were outside the stricken northeast, a staggering 97 percent of people employed with the money were not from the disaster zone.

nafod wrote:I'm surprised Mario/DUX wasn't on that list

Dux wrote:

nafod wrote:I'm surprised Mario/DUX wasn't on that list

I am surprised you can still log in

Florida's lieutenant governor has resigned and 57 people have been charged amid a $300 million gambling operation allegedly masked as a veterans charity.

"Operation Reveal the Deal uncovered a sophisticated racketeering and money laundering scheme stemming from 49 illegal gambling centers operating under the guise of 'internet cafes,'" investigators wrote in a statement. "The organization falsely claimed to be a charitable veterans' organization, but instead deceived the public and government while lining the pockets of its operators."

Of the $300 million in proceeds from the gambling centers run by a purported non-profit called Allied Veterans of the World, only 2 percent of the money went to charitable organizations, according to police.