UPDATE NOTE: Aside from the Blog
Page link listed below which you may
already read, here are 2 additional news
links on the corruption at VSO's which
was just posted in todays Sunday news.
As always, Vets For Justice is always
in touch with todays national issues,
even before the news media is. One
more reason to keep it tuned right
here for all the latest phrasing of
Veterans Rights issues effecting all
of us today. Don't bother taking a
sidetrip to the faker sites -- it's
true and real right here. The news
media spends all of it's time confirming
what we say.

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=647719


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...AR2007121501583.html


ORIGINAL POST ON SATURDAY


The LINK below goes into a Blog
page at the Washington Post. When
you click on the LINK, then scroll
downward to review all the postings
below.

You will have to follow along
all the postings on this topic
of Veterans charities mostly
funding themselves.

This goes to prove to ya that
just because you are "incorporated"
does NOT mean you
are on the up and up.

Vets For Justice's national issues
and agendas are premised on solid
information from verified sources
unlike other Buffoonish operations
who are out to spread false rumors
into this community and deceive Veterans
into holding onto the Status Quo !!
They are trying to trick you all
into making NO change at all to
the VA corruption and those who
have their dirty hands in it.
The current status quo benefits them
and nobody else.

We have seen this news on Veterans charities
only funding themselves every year, but
for those of you who are getting
this news for the very first time, welcome
aboard to OUR world.

See Washington Post Blog sheet below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/groups/i...a7-a42d-779772cf9ed4


THE TEXT OF WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE

'An Intolerable Fraud'

Money-grubbing veterans charities need better oversight.


Sunday, December 16, 2007; Page B06


ORGANIZATIONS that cynically exploit America's best impulses to help its wounded veterans give a perverse new meaning to the notion that charity begins at home.

Troubling activities by some of the nation's largest veterans charities were revealed by a watchdog group and were spotlighted Thursday in a congressional hearing. The American Institute of Philanthropy studied 29 groups and found 20 guilty of such shoddy practices as high overhead costs, high-priced solicitations and big salaries to leaders. Even well-established groups such as the Disabled Veterans Association, AMVETS National Service Foundation and the Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation got F's on the institute's report card. Help Hospitalized Veterans, The Post's Philip Rucker reported, paid its founder and wife a combined $540,000 in compensation and benefits. That some groups spend as much as 91 cents of every dollar raised on fundraising is, as Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) said, "an intolerable fraud."

THE TEXT OF THE TIMES UNION ARTICLE

Gifts not reaching veterans

Watchdog group says several fundraising groups do poor job

By PHILIP RUCKER, Washington Post

First published: Sunday, December 16, 2007


WASHINGTON -- Americans gave millions of dollars in the past year to veterans charities designed to help troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, but several of the groups spent relatively little money on the wounded, according to a leading watchdog organization and federal tax filings.

Eight veterans charities, including some of the nation's largest, gave less than a third of the money raised to the causes they champion, far below the recommended standard, the American Institute of Philanthropy says in a report.

The institute's report suggests that 20 of the 29 military charities studied were managing their resources poorly, paying high overhead costs and direct-mail fundraising fees and, in some cases, providing their leaders with six-figure salaries.

The American Institute of Philanthropy's report used letter grades based largely on the charities' fundraising costs and the percentage of money raised that was spent on charitable activities.

The grades were:

Air Force Aid Society (A+)

American Ex-Prisoners of War Service Foundation (F)

American Veterans Coalition (F)

American Veterans Relief Foundation (F)

AMVETS National Service Foundation (F)

Armed Services YMCA of the USA (A-)

Army Emergency Relief (A+)

Blinded Veterans Association (D)

Disabled American Veterans (D)

Disabled Veterans Association (F)

Fisher House Foundation (A+)

Freedom Alliance (F)

Help Hospitalized Veterans/Coalition to Salute America's Heroes (F)

Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund (A+)

Military Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation (F)

National Military Family Association (A)

National Veterans Services Fund (F)

National Vietnam Veterans Committee (D)

Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (A+)

NCOA National Defense Foundation (F)

Paralyzed Veterans of America (F)

Soldiers' Angels (D)

United Spinal Association's Wounded Warrior Project (D)

USO (United Service Organization) (C+)

Veterans of Foreign Wars and foundation (C-)

Veterans of the Vietnam War & the Veterans Coalition (D)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (D)

VietNow National Headquarters (F)

World War II Veterans Committee (D)


Let this be a stunning lesson to all that the Vets
For Justice stakeholders group is
BEYOND "credible" --- we are the nation's leading early "red flare" to Veterans everywhere when trouble is brewing in our arena. This stunning development in these articles confirms that Vets
For Justice has their fingers on the
pulse of what is wrong in Washington
and that we represent the Veterans side
of issues, and not the VSO's and not the VA. While we may be the target of hate by
those who don't like being EXPOSED for
the pile of useless and faker CRAP that
they truly are, it's a small price to
pay for the Victories that we continue
to bring home to our devoted members.

Eat yer hearts out, you jealous Weenies !!
o-o-o-o-r-r-r-a-a-a-a-h-h-h !

Keep the faith everybody because 2008
is another legislative year, and we will
cleanup the loose ends that did not get
addressed by the VDBC. The new Congressional
session starts on January 4th, so we'll
see you then with more of the latest and
the greatest in our Vet community.

Now that somebody has pulled the plug
on these VSO's, maybe your holidays
will be a little brighter now.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: McClellanVet,

REPLY:

No this story died as fast as it came
as does all other VA corruption stories.
The press does not seem to know
how to carry the ball on Lead stories
involving Veterans issues and we don't
know why this is so.

All of Capitol Hill is entrenched with
these VSO's and getting any kind of
an investigation on them or a prosecution
borders on impossible. The Committees
falsely spread out the public misconception
that these places are "above board"
when in fact, they are merely "unoversighted"
by any police authority that we could
find. Reporting on Non Profits generally
is a bit of mystery process and getting
any official to commit to where that
reporting should all go when it's above
state level really is a mystery.
I would recommend for fraud, waste,
and abuse, to file at the U.S. Treasury
Dept. Inspector Generals Office and then
sit back and see what they say.

This kind of behavior is outrageous. The fact that it takes place in charities that are supposed to be helping out veterans is even worse. Any updates on this at all, haven't seen anything when you almost think there would be indictments.

Darrell B Bray
Washington DC
washingtondc.nyctourist.com