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Unusually Large Charity Fraud—in Alaska!

Alaskans are unusually generous—or there's something else going on—for an embezzler to make off with $75,000 from local chapters of two name-brand charities. 

UK's Version of the Charity Clothes Collection Scam

Gangs, often from Lithuania, use phony fliers or just boost clothes put out for collection, with impunity. 

Trial Spotlights Lapses in Cleveland Diocese Oversight

The first of two federal trials accuses a former assistant treasurer of the diocese of conspiring with the CFO in an overpriced outsourcing arrangement for accounting and computer services that included kickbacks to the CFO.  But when the CFO was found out, he went to work for the Columbus diocese.  The defense claims that these arrangements were business as usual in Cleveland. 

Seaport Museum Ex-Board Chair Keeps His Other Plum Nonprofit Position

Two scandals at the Independence Seaport Museum don't touch its former chair M. Walter D'Alessio, as the long-time real estate mogul stays put as chair of Philadelphia's secretive economic development nonprofit. 

Missing Bingo Bucks in Brookhaven

Accusations and allegations fly about $10,000 missing from a charity bingo game supervised by volunteers in a Long Island community, with town officials claiming that a half million may be gone. 

Indictment Says Nonprofit Was Founded with Millions in Fraud Loot [Updated]

Alan Fabian is charged with using some of the $32 million gains from a phony computer leasing scheme to start the Centre for Management and Technology, a high-profile Baltimore organization using technology to help nonprofits.  (But the Daily Kos may have it wrong: he's not necessarily the same guy listed as a supporter of a certain GOP presidential candidate.)  And the Mitt Romney campaign confirms that he's resigned as co-chair of his national fundraising committee. 

Tvind's Planet Aid Making Inroads against Goodwill & Salvation Army

Their clothing collection boxes are popping up all over the country, along with local stories questioning where how the group operates and where the money goes.  To no avail. 

Salvation Army Manager Fakes Voids & Pockets Cash

Since 1999, according to the police report, she was able to walk away with an average of $500 a month, because cross checking procedures were not observed.

Missouri Takes on High-Pressure Police Telemarketers

A lawsuit accuses Police Protective Fund of making false claims about benefits, while most of the funds raised go to professional fundraisers. 

Attorney Claims Priest Embezzlement is Internal Church Matter

Defense lawyer argues for dismissal of an indictment relating to a million dollars said to have been diverted by a parish priest for the support of his secret family forty miles away from his parishes in rural Virginia.