Group of gay lawyers grabbed by IRS

Monday, August 26, 2024

GLAAD is currently being investigated by the IRS for tax fraud and according to the New York Times and they have a history of questionable financial behavior.

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You're a ------- clown

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-26 08:59 PM

More from the cited article...

... A light rain fell at the Zurich airport one Sunday morning in January 2023 as Sarah Kate Ellis made her way from a seat in Delta's most exclusive cabin to a waiting Mercedes. It was there to chauffeur her to the Swiss Alps, where she and her colleagues would stay at the Tivoli Lodge, a seven-bedroom chalet that cost nearly half a million dollars to rent for the week.

Ms. Ellis, who was en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos, doesn't run a Wall Street bank or a high-flying tech start-up. She is the chief executive of the nonprofit organization GLAAD, one of the country's leading L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups.

The group, which has an annual budget of roughly $30 million, paid for Ms. Ellis's trip, as well as a day of skiing, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with current and former employees and others with knowledge of GLAAD's operations. ...

That ain't good.

Reminds me of...

Wounded Warrior Project's top execs fired amid lavish spending scandal (2016)
www.foxnews.com

... The two top executives of the Wounded Warrior Project " among the largest veterans charities in the country " were fired Thursday after an investigation into accusations of lavish spending on parties, hotel and travel, according to a statement released on behalf of the embattled organization.

Wounded Warrior Project's CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were fired by the charity's board amid criticisms about how it spent more than $800 million in donations over the last four years. ...

Nonprofit watchdog "Charity Navigator" says Wounded Warrior Project spends just 60 percent of its budget on veterans. The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation provides more than 98 percent to veterans. Charity Navigator also assessed that Wounded Warrior's total revenue for 2014 was well over $340 million.

Army Staff Sergeant Erick Millette, who returned from Iraq in 2006 with a bronze star and a purple heart, told CBS News at the time he admired the charity's work and took a job with the group in 2014 but quit after two years.

"Their mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors, but what the public doesn't see is how they spend their money," he said.

Millette said he witnessed lavish spending on staff, with big "catered" parties.

"Going to a nice fancy restaurant is not team building. Staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in Jacksonville, and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel is not team building," he told CBS News. ...

The grifters who steal from charities should be --- --- ------ -----, ---- ----- --!!

Oh, wait...

President Pays Gigantic Fine for Stealing From Charity (2019)
slate.com

Someone hates aliteration.

@#5

What does alliteration have to do with the topic?

Where were they grabbed?

Sounds like sexual assault.

Verb choice kinda ... weird.

Nonprofit watchdog "Charity Navigator" says Wounded Warrior Project spends just 60 percent of its budget on veterans.

That is pathetic.

I always look up the charity navigator ratings when a telemarketer tries to fundraise for a group.

I especially love it when I get the annual request from "State Police Benevolent Fund" telephone call. I start right off asking if they are the charity or a professional fundraiser...when they eventually admit they're a telemarketer I ask how much of every dollar they raise goes to the charity...I had one outright lie to me and say 100%. At that point I tell them I am recording this message and they better double check...he came back and said 10% goes to the charity. My response was "if I send the check directly to the charity they get 100% instead of 10% so thank you for making my decision".

Wounded Warrior Project

www.foxnews.com

Wounded Warrior Project's top execs fired amid lavish spending scandal

According to the charity's tax forms obtained by CBS News, spending on conferences and meetings went from $1.7 million in 2010, to $26 million in 2014, which is the same amount the group spends on combat stress recovery.

Two former employees, who were so fearful of retaliation they asked that CBS News not show their faces on camera, said spending has skyrocketed since Steven Nardizzi took over as CEO in 2009, pointing to the 2014 annual meeting at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs.

"He rappelled down the side of a building at one of the all hands events. He's come in on a Segway, he's come in on a horse," one employee told CBS News.

About 500 staff members attended the four-day conference in Colorado, which CBS News reported cost about $3 million.