New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood marked the president’s birthday on Thursday with a $2.8 million lawsuit seeking to dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation for violations of state and federal law.
Read moreIn a shocking reversal, embattled Missouri Governor Eric Greitens said Tuesday he will resign effective at the end of the week amid a scandal involving an affair and criminal charges.
Read moreAn accounting firm vowed to fight back Tuesday after New York authorities alleged that its work helped shore up a bogus breast cancer charity that raked in more than $18 million in donations over the years.
Read moreSt. Louis prosecutors on Friday charged Missouri Governor Eric Greitens with a felony for his use of a charity donor list for his 2016 political campaign, adding to the first-term governor’s legal woes.
Read moreA political operative testified Thursday that he helped former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman raise $350,000 in charitable donations with the bogus claim that they would buy a Washington townhouse to serve as a club for young conservatives.
Read moreFormer Texas Congressman Steve Stockman drives a van, lives in a small house and loves fast food, his defense attorney said Tuesday, portraying Stockman as an absent-minded everyman who did not defraud charities of $1.2 million to fund his campaigns as prosecutors claim.
Read moreOxfam’s leadership apologized Tuesday for downplaying the significance of a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti and sought to stem the tide of cancelled donations.
Read moreFlorida’s attorney general claims in court that a Pompano Beach-based nonprofit is a charity in name only and spends almost all of the money it raises from the public on vendor and employee salaries.
Read moreThe founder and president of the New York Legal Assistance Group diverted more than $2 million in charitable funds from the nonprofit over 15 years, the New York attorney general says in a settled complaint.
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At risk of losing 30,000 pounds of donated clothes it gathers in Baltimore County, the charity Planet Aid brought a federal complaint to block new zoning regulations.
Read moreA New Jersey man pleaded guilty Friday to stealing millions from a health care charity to finance lavish tastes including luxury cars, expensive real estate and travel.
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A nonprofit that employs disabled veterans to make interment flags claims in court the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wrongly terminated its decades-old federal contract, causing the veterans to lose what in some cases is their primary means of support.
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A political watchdog group filed a complaint with the IRS claiming a nonprofit charity headed by the wife of Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore broke the law by using its contributions to advocate for her husband’s campaign.
Read morePenn State University has filed paperwork indicating it intends to sue the charity founded by ex-assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, whose child molestation scandal rocked the school in 2011.
Read moreAnnouncing the arrest of a retired U.S. Army colonel, federal prosecutors say he helped launder bribes for Haitian officials in connection to a post-earthquake project.
Read moreA Florida ministry accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of defamation after the center’s hate-group designation caused Amazon to deny the church’s application to fundraise through the internet giant’s charitable website.
Read moreA decorated Navy flier faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to embezzling $124,000 in charitable contributions as treasurer of the Distinguished Flying Cross Society, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego said.
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