On Veterans Day, let’s stop scamsters ripping off our heroes with fake ‘charities’
The fundraising letters sounded warm and loving — a promise that a $10 donation every month could help provide a US military veteran with suicide-prevention counseling and medical care.
But $20 million later, the federal government declared that Help the Vets was a phony charity.
Founder Neil Paulson spent 95% of the group’s revenue on more fundraising to keep the money rolling in, the Federal Trade Commission charged — and on his own $246,000 compensation package.
Veterans got nothing.
Help the Vets promised to fund “medical care.” That turned out to be a voucher good at a single chiropractic clinic in Florida.
The group fraudulently claimed it spent $12 million on “family retreats” that were actually time-share vouchers, mostly in Mexico, that practically nobody used.
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