Les fraudes touchant les organismes de charité sont estimées à 40 millards par année (2006) et cela touche beaucoup de gens…les gens bénéficiaires de l’aide de ces organisations. Quelques exemples:
- A parent-teacher organization at an elementary school in Spokane was bilked of nearly $20,000 that it raised selling chocolate and cookie dough.
- The bookkeeper of the Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey Association has pleaded guilty to taking more than $934,000 from an account the association had established to build its own hockey rink.
- Tamaqua Elementary School in Tamaqua, Pa., had to cancel its field trips for the year after discovering more than $34,000 had vanished. The former treasurer of Tamaqua’s parent-teacher organization admitted the theft in Schuylkill County Court. She avoided jail time, but was ordered to repay the money she took.
- The former leader of the Marine Corps League in Sevier County, Tenn., has been fired and charged with the theft of nearly $60,000 from the group’s Toys for Tots campaign.
- An Oregon swing band for teenage musicians lost $33,000, allegedly stolen by its founder, and now can’t buy new instruments or music.
- A civic association trying to revitalize a downtown Atlanta neighborhood is trying to recover $78,000 it says was stolen by its former treasurer.
Source: Inserder Theft a Big Problem for Small Chartities