Sean Hannity teams up with Oliver North to steal from orphans of War Veterans

[Kainos]

The short story is that FOX News host Hannity and Oliver North(Iran Contra Scandal) run a charity that promises to give 100% of proceeds to injured veterans or kids whose parents were killed, but only 4-7% is actually reaching the families. Story broke a few days ago but if true could spell disaster for Hannity.

source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35160.html

A Washington watchdog group formally complained to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday that Fox News host Sean Hannity has played on sympathy for wounded troops to raise money, without fulfilling promises to help children of those killed or injured during wartime.

The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Freedom Concerts, affiliated with the Freedom Alliance, for falsely promoting that all concert proceeds would be donated to a scholarship fund for the children of those killed or wounded in war.

CREW also asked the Internal Revenue Service to look into the Freedom Alliance for engaging in political activities that are prohibited for tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations such as the alliance.

“Hannity has promoted the concerts on his show, making statements such as, ‘Every penny, 100 percent of the donations are applied to the Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund,’” CREW said in a statement.

But according to CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan, the amounts promoted don’t add up to the amounts donated.

The Freedom Concert website says that more than $10 million has been raised for the scholarship fund. According to Sloan, Hannity has said that since 2003 the group has raised $2.5 million for scholarships, but after reviewing the spending records, the amount spent on scholarships cannot be more than $2.1 million.

“This is the kind of deceptive marketing that the FTC looks very dimly at,” Sloan said.

Since Freedom Alliance does not actually run the concerts, it’s possible it funds the scholarships by different means, she said.

Premier Marketing, a company run by Duane Ward, markets and manages the concerts. Ward also runs the Premier Speakers Bureau, which represents Hannity and retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, founder of the Freedom Alliance and now an honorary chairman.

Ward and North have a long history as well. Ward ran North’s legal defense fund in the late 1980s when North was embroiled in the Iran-Contra scandal.

For those that care for more details, here are a few articles from investigative reporting:

http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2010/...arity-scandal/
http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2010/...iance-scandal/
http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2010/...alliance-scam/

[ZarakiKujata]

stop believing the libruhl media bias.

[Elvis]

Socialism.

[Blarg]

post a fair and balanced fox news link or I won't believe it

[Aristio]

I read the title as:

Sean Hannity teams up with Oliver North to steal orphans from War Veterans

Would've been a much more interesting story.

[Elvis]

same lol, i blame video games for dyslexia

[ZarakiKujata]

i blame video games

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[Therin]

Where were you getting 4-7%? Maybe I missed something, but it sounds like they've received $10 million in donations and have used $2.1 million for donations, which is 21%, and a reasonable amount.

Maybe I misread somehow. Admittedly, didn't look at all the links, but that's what I'm getting from your OP.

[Yuri-G]

I read the title as:

Sean Hannity teams up with Oliver North to steal orphans from War Veterans

Would've been a much more interesting story.

me too, and agreed. I would've rather read that one.

[Nuker]

Oh i can't wait to see how he blames this on the left, and thinks hes smart by making redundant/non-factual points. lol that guy is fucking annoying

[Callisto]

Where were you getting 4-7%? Maybe I missed something, but it sounds like they've received $10 million in donations and have used $2.1 million for donations, which is 21%, and a reasonable amount.

Maybe I misread somehow. Admittedly, didn't look at all the links, but that's what I'm getting from your OP.

Even if it is 21%, that makes it 79% less than what he was promoting it to be. I know that NFPs have some sort of overhead that needs to be cleared so you can never truly donate 100%, but 79% is a bit excessive when you are saying that 100% of the proceeds are being donated in order to draw more donations.

[Elvis]

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I heart u Zaraki

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[SwampdonkeyPLD]

Old news and already refuted by their IRS forms.

[Headspace]

oh joy

[ZarakiKujata]

Old news and already refuted by their IRS forms.

[Melena]

Old news and already refuted by their IRS forms.

Because people don't try to cheat on there taxes ever, right?

[Mica]

Sean is untouchable, this will not affect him.

[Takedown3]

swampdonkey to the neo-con rescue

[dudeguy]

Old news and already refuted by their IRS forms.

I dont know about IRS forms, but this news came out at least 1 month ago so it is old news. Hannity is still a doucheface regardless of this which is old news as well.... when is he getting waterboarded again?

[Olo401]

Glad to see it's finally reaching the mainstream media after two weeks..

BTW this story was originally broken by Debbie Schlussel, a conservative blogger and contemptible bitch who did the right thing for a change.

And no Swampy, despite what you claim the tax returns actually help to prove Hannity's guilt.