SCALLYWAG SCHEMES: A Santa Barbaran I know regularly finds his mailbox stuffed with heartrending appeals from charities. I’ve checked and found that too many of them are just shameful shams, little more than moneymaking rackets.
The operators make annual salaries of up to $300,000 or more while spending perhaps 2 percent of the donations on the causes they hustle.
While charitable giving is a long, honorable tradition in America, sham “charities” aim for your heart, but their real target is your wallet. Only occasionally are they shut down by the feds.