Two Democratic state lawmakers in Beaver County, Pa.—Rep. Michael R. Veon and Sen. Gerald LaValle—are being questioned for sending government money to a nonprofit organization they control, reports The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The lawmakers are the founders and co-chairs of Beaver Initiative for…
Bruce Kovner, a hedge-fund manager who founded and runs Caxton Associates, in New York, donated a large gift of music manuscripts to the Juilliard School, reports The New York Times. The gift consists of 139 items, including autograph scores, sketches, composer-amended proofs and first editions of…
ARRESTS IN DEATHS OF RELIEF WORKERS
Nine people have been arrested in connection with the 2004 murders in Afghanistan of three European and two Afghan aid workers with Medecins Sans Frontieres, reports the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The five aid workers were killed when grenades and gunfire struck their vehicle in an…
RESTRICTIONS ON NONPROFIT GROUPS
U.S. groups that promote democracy abroad are meeting resistance from some regimes, reports The Washington Times. Groups like the Open Society Institute and Freedom House say their work is aimed at creating conditions conducive to democracy and civil society, and is not intended to overthrow…
Thousands of internal documents from the American Red Cross, released Monday by a Senate committee, reveal disorganization and long-standing inefficiencies at the organization, reports the Los Angeles Times. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee,…
Michael Joyce, one of the people responsible for making conservatives the “dominant intellectual force” in America, was not always a popular philanthropist, writes the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Joyce, who died Friday, criticized such organizations as the Ford and Rockefeller…
Amid budget trimming, Red Cross spent $500,000 in three years to raise its profile