The rabbi whose hand was mutilated in a San Diego-area synagogue shooting in 2019 pleaded guilty to federal tax fraud charges Tuesday, following an FBI investigation into his charitable organizations which preceded the attack on his congregation during the sacred Jewish holiday of Passover.
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Foreign charities are not entitled to the same First Amendment freedoms that protect American entities from having to make anti-prostitution pledges for U.S. grant money, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Monday.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Change.org of soliciting donations online for petitions calling for social change in the wake of the George Floyd protests, but using the money “for the site’s overhead, and for its own profit.”
Read moreGeraldine Hill, 59, and her husband Clayton Hill, 58, both of Bonita, Calif., face up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and tax evasion involving their alleged charity On Your Feet aka Family Resource Center, of Spring Valley, from which they diverted $1.3 million and paid no taxes, federal prosecutors said.
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s the coronavirus spread, the world’s richest communist dug into his deep pockets. Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group and a member of the ruling Communist Party, helped pay for 1,000 ventilators delivered to New York in April. Ma’s foundation also is giving ventilators, masks and other supplies in Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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A counterfeit $20 bill allegedly triggered the chain of events leading to George Floyd’s death. Days later, more than $20 million has been donated to his family and to charities in his honor and the outpouring is growing by the minute.
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Chief Justice John Roberts seemed inclined Tuesday to hold that First Amendment protections are available to the foreign partners of U.S. entities combatting AIDS and other diseases.
Read moreBritain organized a flyover and 140,000 people sent cards to mark the 100th birthday on Thursday of a World War II veteran whose staggering fundraising efforts have inspired a country in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Being stuck at home didn’t stop a British man from running an outdoor marathon.
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The European Union’s highest court ruled Thursday that an environmental law charity cannot have access to documents relating to EU trade agreements.
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A federal grand jury in California has returned an indictment against three administrators of a Philippines-based church accused of orchestrating a scheme to bring church members to the United States to work long hours as “miracle worker” donation collectors.
Read moreA federal class action claims the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops defrauded donors to its “Peter’s Pence” collection of “hundreds of millions of dollars” by not using it for charitable causes, as promised, but putting it into “suspicious investment funds,” such as luxury condominium developments and Hollywood movies, while paying fund managers multimillion-dollar commissions.
Read moreThe Illinois attorney general accused the Paypal Charitable Giving Fund of consumer fraud, in Cook County Chancery Court.
Read moreTexas sued Nuensie Suku Oakley aka Nancy Oakley and her Thai Princess Organization Against Domestic Violence and Siam Real Estate dba Thai Princess Jewelry, claiming she uses outrageous false claims to take money for supposed charities that she refuses to name, in Bexar County Court.
Read moreSix years after throwing out the “anti-prostitution pledge” AIDS charities had to make to get federal funding, the justices agreed Friday to decide what requirements can be made of the charities’ foreign affiliates.
Read moreA New York state court has ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to settle claims that he used money from his charitable foundation for his personal, business and political interests during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Read moreThe New York attorney general sued NYCharities.org and its president and only remaining board member Cristine Cronin in New York County Supreme Court, claiming they collected $750,000 for charities but failed to distribute it.
Read moreThree states that hoped expanded credits would curb the effects of 2017 Republican tax bill faced a new obstacle last month when the IRS changed the rules on charitable deductions. They urged a federal judge Wednesday to set that change aside.
Read moreFrench authorities have launched an investigation into an alleged fraud scheme involving French and Polish companies suspected of providing minced meat of extremely poor quality to charities.
Read moreA billionaire technology investor and philanthropist says he will provide grants to wipe out the student debt of the entire graduating class at Morehouse College – an estimated $40 million.
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