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Settlement with Menacola Marketing Bars Company’s Owners from Fundraising for Any Charity; Requires them to Pay $100,000 to Reputable Charities Supporting Veterans

This is Latest in AG’s Operation Bottomfeeder, Targeting Shell Charities That Exploit Popular Causes To Line Professional Fundraisers’ Pockets

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that his office reached a settlement that shuts down Menacola Marketing, Inc., a telemarketing company that solicited on behalf of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation (NVVF) – a sham charity previously shut down by the Attorney General – and other shell charities that exploited popular causes in order to line fundraisers’ pockets. The Attorney General shut down NVVF in 2016 after an investigation by his Charities Bureau revealed that NVVF raised millions of dollars through deceptive solicitations while providing almost no help to veterans. Today’s settlement is part of the Attorney General’s Operation Bottomfeeder, which has previously shut down other shell charities, such as the Breast Cancer Survivors Foundation. Continue reading “Operation Bottomfeeder: New York Attorney General Shuts Down Brooklyn Telemarketing Operation that Solicited Funds for Sham Veterans Charity”

SACRAMENTO – Attorney General Xavier Becerra secured a stipulated judgment against the National Cancer Coalition (NCC), for filing false and misleading financial reports and for deceptive solicitations concerning its charitable programs. NCC’s stated mission is to prevent cancer and fund cancer treatment and research. A judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court issued the stipulated judgment to enjoin NCC’s deceptive practices and shut down the charity.

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GEORGETOWN, DE – In February 2015, the Delaware State Police and the Delaware Department of Justice began planning an operation designed to proactively impact violent crime in Sussex and Kent Counties. This operation targeted subjects participating in an organized criminal enterprise. Members of this network were active participants in the crimes of racketeering, murder, home invasion robbery, illegal weapons possession, and the distribution of illegal narcotics.

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(DES MOINES, Iowa) Two charities mailing sweepstakes-based solicitations to Iowans have been barred from any further soliciting in the state, under agreements with Attorney General Tom Miller.  Veterans Relief Network, based in Schererville, Indiana, and Healing Heroes Network, out of Palm Harbor, Florida, were both investigated by Miller’s Consumer Protection Division for consumer fraud after the Division learned that Iowans were receiving the mailings.

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LINCOLN – Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced a settlement today with United States Amateur Confederation of Rolling Skating (USARS), a Nebraska nonprofit corporation.

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