Hmmm...well, that may be true, but I suspect it’s no more true than for any other kind of human organization. I grant it’s a bit sleazier than other ways, given there’s automatically fraud involved and the potential violation of the moral sense of the ‘customers’, but the question of fraud when the annual revenues are less than $25K seems so remote as to be, frankly, laughable. I suggest that all of the fraudulent charities reap more than $25K per year, and so are already being audited. You may decide for yourself the extent to which it is appropriate.
But, if you’re good with the government seeing it necessary to pry into every nook and cranny, no matter how modest or small, I can’t stop you. This puts a burden on me, a very small church-leader, for no appreciable reason. I can’t say thanks for you thinking it appropriate.
I missed that the new law only applied to charities taking in less that $25,000 per year.
At any rate you are one of the good guys no matter how much your church charity takes in. Here is one of the bad guys that just came out in the news yesterday. 14 million plundered from his non-profit alleged ——>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/nyregion/21espada.html
Cuomo Accuses Espada of Diverting Millions From ClinicsBy NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
ALBANY — Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo filed a civil lawsuit against the Senate majority leader, Pedro Espada Jr., on Tuesday, accusing Mr. Espada, his family and his political aides of siphoning more than $14 million from a network of nonprofit health care clinics he founded — money used for meals, vacations and campaign expenses.
Mr. Espada used the network as a “personal piggy bank,” the suit said, to pay for expenses over the last five years like $20,000 worth of takeout sushi and $50,000 to maintain a Bronx apartment where opponents have asserted that he does not live. He was also given a severance package now worth $9 million that would leave the clinics bankrupt if paid out, the suit said.
Mr. Espada, a Bronx Democrat, was able to drain money from the organization, the Comprehensive Community Development Corporation, by stacking its board with relatives and Senate employees, the suit said.
“I have not seen anything on this scale,” Mr. Cuomo told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday. He said that the civil suit was probably only his first move against Mr. Espada, who was elevated to majority leader by Senate Democrats last summer after agreeing to end a monthlong coup that had paralyzed state government.
“I think criminal charges are a very real possibility,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Stay tuned.”
The suit, part of a continuing investigation by Mr. Cuomo into Mr. Espada’s political and business activities, seeks to remove Mr. Espada as president of the nonprofit corporation, which runs four health clinics in the Bronx that receive most of their financing from the federal and state governments.
The lawsuit, which names 19 current and former directors of the corporation in addition to Mr. Espada, also seeks to remove its entire board. Mr. Cuomo said it had rubber-stamped millions of dollars’ worth of inappropriate contracts and expenditures.
Those expenditures, the suit said, also included the use of a Mercedes-Benz by Mr. Espada; vacations for the senator and his family to Las Vegas, Miami and Puerto Rico; and at least $100,000 worth of campaign literature paid for with money funneled through the clinics, known as the Soundview HealthCare Network.
The board also appears to have approved for Mr. Espada a $9 million severance package, which far exceeds Soundview’s net assets, leaving the network technically insolvent
but the question of fraud when the annual revenues are less than $25K seems so remote as to be, frankly, laughable.>>>>>>>
Very true! My mistake