my cherie amour...

lovely as a summer's day....

years ago I used to give to the United Way until the CEO was busted for using funds to remodel his house and enrich his family...fool me once, shame on you...since then non-profits have been on my radar..unfortunately, we've seen many break the public trust with unprecedented fraud..the City of Bell would have made a great non-profit! Locally, nonprofits ask cities for cash...you wanna balance the budget, stop giving tax money to them! Peoples Self Help Housing have helped themselves to the City of Carp to the tune of nearly half a million dollars, mostly thanks to councilman (and Andy Breitbart fan) Joe Armendariz..you know, I wondered how Joe could afford that silver Lexus SUV on a councilman's paltry salary...I'm just sayin'...then we got the Botanic Garden..this incredible resource was plundered by the board who recently scattered when people caught on to them, led buy ex-con, ex Arizona gov, and UFO seeing nut-job Fife Symington (a News-Press pal)..and the SM Natural History Museum is going down the same track....
here's an interesting little story about a non-profit called the "Coalition to End Family Violence"..it appears the CEO, a gal named Cherie Duval, who was was making about 100 grand a year, is accused of using the agency's credit cards for personal use....so that means if I were the CEO of a non-profit and I saw a cool shearling shirt-jacket in JL Powells for $2495. I could just charge it!!
　
Duval is suspected of using the agency's credit card for personal expenses from the end of July 2003 until she resigned in February 2008, overpaying herself for almost a year and a half, stealing an agency van that a board member said was used to take victims to shelters and improperly authorizing documents with the names of board members Read more: vcstar-
it seems Ms. Duval may have had gambling addiction so she kept writing herself checks and the board of directors looked the other way even when former employees brought up their misgivings about Cherie...
　
and more: (Dec. 17) -- A bone marrow campaign went all out to make potential donors an offer they couldn't resist by spending $60,000 a week to hire models in short skirts and heels to ask people to sign up for the lifesaving registry, investigators say. But what the Massachusetts registry didn't tell unsuspecting do-gooders is that its costly operation was billing insurance companies up to $4,300 for each DNA swab. Most labs charge about $100. James Boffetti, New Hampshire's senior state attorney general, told AOL News today that he's worried Caitlin Raymond's business practices would discourage people from donating to other registries.Boffetti said the nonprofit registry, an arm of UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., engaged in "an aggressive marketing program" by instructing its models to wear heels and skirts to find donors at grocery stores, malls, sporting events and colleges.
fool me twice, shame on me...