It's that time of year again. Get ready to be humiliated, mocked and threaten because it's UNITED WAY FUND DRIVE TIME!!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!!
Posted on 10/25/2007 8:14:12 AM PDT by SmithL
United Way of the Bay Area is legally responsible for a nonprofit it spun off to process hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable contributions and must pay $4.78 million to a company left holding the bag when the nonprofit collapsed in 2003, a San Francisco judge has declared in a tentative ruling.
Superior Court Judge Robert Dondero did not find fraud by United Way and denied punitive damages sought by Network for Good, an Internet charity clearinghouse in Maryland that sued United Way. But Dondero said United Way had engaged in a variety of misconduct, including manipulating financial records to conceal its role in the downfall of the processing firm, PipeVine Inc.
"The integrity of the public giving process is at stake," Dondero said in an 82-page decision, issued Friday. Despite United Way's public position that PipeVine was a separate company after the charity spun it off in 2000, the judge said, the two operated as if they were a single entity that United Way substantially controlled.
United Way also "ignored repeated warnings that PipeVine was not viable, and acted instead for its own self-interest," Dondero said.
The ruling is not yet final. United Way attorney Robert Phelps said the charity disagrees with Dondero and will appeal to a higher court if the judge reaffirms his decision.
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I’ve been down on the United Way since I learned of their extortionate tactics 30 or so years ago - a teller at a small S&L in Maryland was fired because she wouldn’t pay off United Way, and the boss couldn’t get the participation level he wanted.
They always recruit a high level supervisor so that they can bring pressure on the lower level employees to come across with the money.
I have refused to have any dealings with the United Way ever since they started discriminating against the Scouts.
Now, my money, and my time, go directly to my Church, and the Scouts.
Anything involved with the united way, UN, should be avoided. They are all crooks. Very little of the charity dollar goes to the cause it’s supposed to. It pays the high salaries for the bureaucratic empire of these NGO’s, jet setting all over the world to attend “meetings” in 5 star hotels catered with fine French foods and exotic wines, then drive around in $100,000 land rovers and point out the tinted windows at starving masses herded into death camps by Islamic warlords cleanzing the world for “allah’s cause”
A charity designed to benefit those controlling it? Why it sounds like the formula of every leftist foundation. Don’t the Kennedys operate several “charitable” foundations, deriving many hundreds of thousands of dollars doing so, for their primary employment?
“a teller at a small S&L in Maryland was fired because she wouldn’t pay off United Way, and the boss couldn’t get the participation level he wanted.”
I would think a lawyer would drain monetary funds from that S&L for such actions.
Doesn’t matter your boss will just forge your signature and donate a dollar in your name. Don’t you like this time of year. It’s when you get to meet those bosses that you only knew of because an org chart said they existed!
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