Phony Vet Charities
Project VetCare closed for mismanagement
Bobo and JonP sent us links the story of Project VetCare, a charity that was supposed to help veterans, but instead, helped themselves, according to New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald; “This charity was established to support the brave men and women who have served our country. Some leaders of this charity enriched themselves at […]
J Thomas Burch pleads guilty
We wrote about John Thomas Burch about a year ago when he was busted for pretending to be a Special Forces officer who had been in Vietnam. He was actually a JAG officer for the special forces unit in Vietnam and never so much as attended the Army’s Basic Airborne Course, let alone received any […]
Veterans in Need; shady charity
ABC Action News in Tampa Bay, Florida investigates their local charity – Veterans in Need Foundation, Inc. in Pompano Beach and they find convicted violent offenders, sex offenders and various criminals set up aggressively collecting donations. According to Charity Navigator, they raised $448,969 in 2014, the last time they filed an IRS Form 990 as […]
John Thomas Burch charged
The New York Daily News reports that John Thomas Burch, the former head of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation who we busted with our partners about a year ago, has been charged with fraud and embezzling from the charity of about $150,000 and spending that money on personal entertainment in Maryland. John Thomas Burch, a […]
Joyell Riley pleads guilty again
Last year we talked about Joyell Riley when she was arrested for claiming to be a “highly decorated” Marine Corps veteran and a cancer victim to scam folks on a GoFundMe tincup. The money went into her pocket instead. She was sentenced in December to three years on parole and ordered to make restitution to […]
J Thomas Burch to retire from VA
Back in the Spring, we wrote about J Thomas Burch and his phony Special Forces career after CNN exposed his charity, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation as the worst performing veterans’ charity. It took in $29 million in donations paying out only a few thousand to actual veterans’ causes, spending most of it on professional […]
Vet charity conman sentenced in UK
Someone sends us a link to the story of Marvin Trussell in the United Kingdom who pocketed about $63,000 (£50,000) that him and his charity workers took in for donations to his “Army of Heroes” bogus charity by selling little camouflaged wristbands. Marvin Trussell, 42, set up ‘Army of Heroes’, claiming to collect money for […]
National Vietnam Veterans Foundation closes doors
The worst Veteran charity, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, run by valor thieves J. Thomas Burch and Hans Rudolph Gresham, has shut down, according to CNN; “Tom Burch has resigned from the Foundation and NVVF is shutting down completely, ” Kaufman wrote in an email to CNN. “All fundraising has ceased and the only thing […]
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