Britain 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.
Read moreThe Federal Trade Commission and Missouri attorney general claim in a federal complaint that the Disabled Police and Sheriffs Foundation dba The American Police and Sheriffs Association dba Police Officers Safety Association raised $9.9 million, ostensibly for families of police officers killed in the line of duty, but kept 95 percent of it.
Read moreThe Federal Trade Commission and Florida attorney general brought a federal complaint against the American Veterans Foundation, saying it collected $6.5 million by promising to send care packages to active-duty military members and homeless vets, but the “donations almost entirely benefit” the group’s director.
Read moreRamping up their criminal case against the Trump Foundation, New York prosecutors said new evidence shows President Donald Trump used foundation money during his 2016 presidential run — a violation of the bar against charities getting involved in political campaigns.
Read moreThe mastermind of a wide-ranging college admissions scandal set up a charity that wove a deep web of deception and fraud to mask bribes and payoffs, funneling millions of dollars through the tax-exempt organization under the nose of federal officials, according to prosecutors and tax documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Read moreOne year into former Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s five-year federal prison sentence, an 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Friday over whether her conviction should be overturned based on the trial court’s dismissal of a juror who said God told him Brown was not guilty.
Read moreIn a somber endnote to the Christmas season, GoFundMe said it has refunded the $400,000 contributed to the trio who are charged now with concocting a bogus story of a homeless good Samaritan.
Read moreThe Trump Foundation has agreed to dissolve under the watchful eyes of a judge and New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood, papers made public Tuesday show.
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