{"id":137167,"date":"2023-02-17T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137167"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T19:12:23","slug":"donations-to-help-veterans-or-to-keep-companies-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=137167","title":{"rendered":"Donations to help Veterans, or to keep companies running?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Al Yee, a Vietnam Veteran, worked for the state to help veterans find jobs. He sent some veterans to Sean Murphy to interview for positions “in the company.” During the interviews, the veterans were asked to collect donations. Al Yee became suspicious of Sean Murphy’s operations. Murphy’s criminal past did not help him against the suspicions against him.<\/p>\n

From WCVB 5abc:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy told 5 Investigates last fall that the money — cash donations collected outside supermarkets around eastern Massachusetts — is for a pair of companies, not for him.<\/p>\n

“The collections are to keep the company going,” he said in an interview last fall.<\/p>\n

His long, and well-publicized, criminal past raised questions for veterans advocates on the North Shore when they learned that Murphy was hiring local veterans to help him collect the donations.<\/p>\n

“Can you understand why people would be suspicious of you being involved with a business like this?” 5 Investigates’ Mike Beaudet asked him in the interview last fall.<\/p>\n

“I would understand any of that. But what people got to understand is, is that I am a professional burglar,” he said. “When I needed money or I wanted money, I could go out and make it in one night.”<\/p>\n

But, he said, “This is a 100% legitimate business.”<\/p>\n

But the advocates were not so sure, and they complained to the state Attorney General’s office. After months of waiting, the AG’s office filed a civil complaint against Murphy asking a judge to stop what it calls Murphy’s “deceptive solicitation practices,” to order the companies to properly register, to order Murphy and others to pay civil penalties, and to bar them “from soliciting charitable donations.” There is a hearing scheduled for Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

Murphy denies any wrongdoing, telling 5 Investigates that the companies hired a legal service to handle state filings and that the service never told them they also had to register with the Attorney General’s office. Murphy said the companies are now in the process of registering with the AG’s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

WCVB 5abc has the article and video to the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Yee, a Vietnam Veteran, worked for the state to help veterans find jobs. He sent some veterans to Sean Murphy to interview for positions “in the company.” During the interviews, the veterans were asked to collect donations. Al Yee became suspicious of Sean Murphy’s operations. Murphy’s criminal past did not help him against the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news","category-veterans-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-zGn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}