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posted by CoolHand on Sunday June 07 2015, @08:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the red-flag dept.

After seeing problems with the Red Cross response local storm relief (example: 40% of available emergency vehicles used for press conferences), reporter Laura Sullivan decided to look into what happened in Haiti, where the American Red Cross collected a whopping $500 million in donations.

Her report is damning. The largest proportion of these were to go into housing. The Red Cross built...wait for it...six houses. In one area where the Red Cross promised to spend $24 million, and even printed a brochure exclaiming over all that they accomplished, the local residents are unaware of any Red Cross activity.

Meanwhile the Red Cross refuses to provide more than a very high level overview of their projects. No financial figures are provided that would allow one to figure out how much of that $500 million was actually spent on relief, and where the rest of it went.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by TheRaven on Sunday June 07 2015, @04:30PM

    by TheRaven (270) on Sunday June 07 2015, @04:30PM (#193285) Journal
    That's assuming that you're giving money. If you're donating other forms of asset then you deduct at the full valuation of the asset, even if you couldn't possibly liquidate it for that value.
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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:41PM

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:41PM (#193305) Journal

    Now this is where it makes sense, but if you can't liquidate at that level it's not clearly not worth that, so surely that would be fraud

    • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:43PM

      by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Sunday June 07 2015, @05:43PM (#193306)

      Now this is where it makes sense, but if you can't liquidate at that level it's not clearly not worth that, so surely that would be fraud

      That is why they are working so hard to dismantle the ability of the IRS to investigate fraud.