J. Thomas Burch & the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation
Bobo and Liberal Civvie send us a link to the story about this National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, the CEO of which is J. Thomas Burch, a Veterans’ Affairs attorney -deputy director in the VA’s Office of General Counsel. According to CNN, during 2010 through 2014, they took in $29 million in donations. Pretty impressive, huh? Well, until you realize that only 2% of their donations went to Vietnam veterans. Nearly $8 million went to pay professional telemarketers. They earned a “Zero Star” rating from Charity Navigator – quite an accomplishment, huh?
When contacted by CNN, Burch asked that we not contact him at his job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, but he refused to answer phone calls placed to his home. CNN tried to confront Burch as he drove home from work in a black Rolls Royce, but upon seeing a CNN camera crew, Burch gunned the Rolls Royce down his suburban Washington, D.C. street and disappeared.
Yeah, that’s right, he drives a Rolls Royce.
According to the charity’s tax filings, though, it accounted for about $122,000 in cash donations to veterans, out of more than $8.5 million raised in donations in 2014. That is less than 2% of the charities cash donations being used to support veterans and their families.
Nice work if you can get it, I guess.
Category: Phony Vet Charities
Charities like this are why I do my donating directly to the recipient, except in very few cases. I recently bought a $20.00 raffle ticket for a veteran’s charity, but only after checking them out, and seeing that the majority of monies collected actually get to those intended. It really is not that hard to look into any of these so called “charities” to find which are actually supporting their staff, and which are truly doing good for the veterans.
I’m the same way with charities and have been for at least a decade. I’ll donate to The Salvation Army without a second thought, but I remain wary of others.
To be fair, it is an old Rolls.
At least it didnt have a bad tranny…….
And I bet it isn’t kept under a temporary canopy in a driveway near a doorless mailbox.
wrong thread…
(smirk)
Cocksucker.
Yep, with extra head cheese.
Holy Crapola WTF !!!!!!!?????
Class valedictorian of the Wounded Warrior Project’s school of donations distribution.
I think he kinda looks like Michael “Killer” Killam with a halfway decent haircut and a shave.
Money, Money, Money. Let’s all sing along.
Okay, but you asked for it.
I like this version of Money, That’s What I Want…Flying Lizzards
Love me some ABBA!
Rumor they will get back together, at least for a while. Maybe already have, I dunno. HMC also loves me some ABBA.
I guess I should have added on more Money to the line.
It was actually the tune by the O’Jays that was going through my mind when I typed in Money, Money, Money.
How does it feel to be a cash cow for the Royalists?
I wonder if he is a neighbor of one Psul/Palmer of the Ballsack? Must have the same halpo gene group as Psul? Bet you thqt Burch has a bunch of Rolls under a tent in front of his home in the DC area?
I’ll provide the rope to hang this asshole. New rope.
I’m thinking at least 1″ hemp rope.
Deputy Director in the VA’s OGC, drives a Rolls, and heads a charity that spends 2% of it’s intake on the purported target audience, eh?
Feel free to insert your favorite “sleazy lawyer joke” here.
Except this isn’t a joke.
The likes of the VA Administrator/Employee Bonus Program.
First kill all the lawyers.
Here’s the “charity’s” website….
http://nationalvietnamveteransfoundation.org/
The like to give out “personal hygiene kits” at the VA hospitals.
Their annual report:
http://nationalvietnamveteransfoundation.org/NVVF%20Annual%20Report%202015.pdf
As I have said for a long time, a lot of VA attorneys are scumbags.
Give VISN 19’s Regional Counsel a call and ask Jeffery-boy what he thinks. Or better yet, give old Tammy Kennedy or Dick Hipolit a buzz at the VA DC General Counsel office and tell them what you think.
Just google the names and Congressional Index to find those frequently hidden but publicly-available numbers.
Screwing Veterans for a bonus and now just down right stealing from them.
The culture…..
Concur. The more I see, the less I believe that the VA is salvageable. It may well be time to abolish it and start over from scratch.
Personally, I tell anyone who clamors for single-payer, government run healthcare, I tell them to look no further than the DVA.
Shitbag. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
(2 Henry VI, 4.2.59), Dick the Butcher to Jack Cade
I end up thinking things about airdrops into the ‘Stan, ‘cept it’d be a waste of a perfectly good chute.
Chute? Man you’re generous.
trebuchet
Gives rise to the comment 98% of the scummy lawyers give the other 2% a bad name.
Wonder if he graduated from Southwestern School of Law.
May Bernath be the one to check the fuel level on his plane the next time he flies anywhere.
Meanwhile, my local DAV Chapter provides basic toiletries for our hospitalized veterans at the VA Hospital.
This guy makes WWF look like a bunch of amateurs.
And his thieving likely leads to good charities receiving less donations (Semper Fi Fund, Fisher House, Homes for Our Troops)
Using your position at the VA to start a charity and defraud people trying to help Vets. That shithead needs to be butt fucked with a cactus. Where is the Congressional inquiry into how a VA staffer can afford to drive a Rolls or earn that kind of cash? Symptomatic of the rot at the VA.
Just following the lead of the VA Administrator/Employee Bonus Program.
Calling this man a used scumbag would give used scumbags everywhere a bad name. If there is a hell, I hope the devil ensures this shitbird has a reservation.
Know what?
Fuck this thieving prick.