Source:
The Roanoke TimesCuccinelli donates funds to veterans
The funds came from a man who claimed to be the director of a veterans charity group.
By Michael Sluss
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RICHMOND -- Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is giving several veterans support programs the campaign funds he received last year from an alleged identity thief who ran a suspect veterans charity organization.
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Virginia and several other states began investigating the association after news reports raised questions about the existence of its members and how the group spent millions of dollars in reported donations.
In August, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray said the man who represented himself as {Bobby Thompson, and who claimed to be the director of a nonprofit group called the U.S. Navy Veterans Association} used a false identity to rent a UPS box that served as a collection point for donations to the state's chapter of the U.S. Navy Veterans Association. Authorities have charged him with identity fraud but have not been able to find him.
Attorneys representing the association withdrew from court proceedings in Ohio this summer because they could not find the man who claimed to be Thompson. That's when Cuccinelli decided to divest himself of funds he received from the man. Cuccinelli is giving $5,000 to the Virginia Veterans Care Center and $2,500 to the Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery. The funds will be given to the Veterans Services Foundation and designated for those programs.
Read more:
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/262364
You may recall that Cuccinelli had stated many months ago that he had no intention of giving the money back, as it had not been proven to him that the "nonprofit group's" director was the least bit suspect.
The
Washington Post has an article about this too.
Cuccinelli names vets groups to receive campaign cash
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