Nonprofit Hospitals Lose a Key Battle
Nonprofit hospitals lose a key battle over property-tax exemption
Jail Terms Awarded in Arizona Charity Fraud Case
Two executives of the now-defunct Baptist Foundation of Arizona were sentenced to prison terms on Friday, seven years after the foundation went bankrupt and was accused of losing more than $550-million in investments by church members, Reuters reports. William Crotts, the foundation’s former…
Hurricane Relief Program in Louisiana Garners Criticism
A Louisiana program intended to provide mental health care to survivors of Hurricane Katrina is coming under fire from experts who say the $52.4-million federally financed effort is ineffective, The Times-Picayune, in New Orleans, reports. State officials are funneling money from the Federal…
Mo. Charity Comes Under Scrutiny
Working Families’ Friend, a Kansas City, Mo., charity, is attracting criticism because it paid nearly twice as much to the group’s two employees as it spent on its mission of helping the needy, The Kansas City Star reports. The group makes grants to help working people who cannot make ends meet.…
Teacher Leaves $3.8-Million to Nature Conservancy
A frugal elementary school teacher in Toronto has left what is believed to be the largest donation by an individual to an environmental cause in Canada, reports The Globe and Mail, in Toronto. Roberta Langtry, who never married and had no children but who invested in IBM in the 1940s or 1950s,…
Priests in Florida Stole Millions, Police Say
Police arrested a Roman Catholic priest in South Florida this week, charging him with stealing millions from the church, and are searching for another who they believe stole an unspecified amount of money to pay for gambling trips to Las Vegas and the Bahamas, reports The Associated Press. Msgr.…
Former Charity Employee Charged With Theft
Federal officials in Massachusetts charged a former secretary to the founder of the Children’s Glaucoma Foundation with stealing $500,000 from the foundation and the founder, reports The Boston Globe. Prosecutors said Karen L. Sicher, 45, of Methuen, used the money to shop and gamble over a…
NY Charity Returns $625,000 in Misused Funds
NY community center is ordered to repay city $625,000