"Benevolence had a chapter in suburban Fort Lauderdale until 1994, and Holy Land opened a Florida office nearby in 1998. Holy Land tax returns for 1997 and 1998 list a University of Central Florida professor among its key volunteers.
The Bush administration froze Holy Land's accounts on Dec. 4. Ten days later, while federal agents seized records and equipment at Global Relief and Benevolence offices outside Chicago, NATO peacekeepers and U.N. police raided two Global Relief offices in Kosovo. "