Five Men Indicted in Mass. Charity Fraud Case
August 5, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
Five Massachusetts men have been indicted on charges that they posed as fund raisers for charity, defrauding more than 1,000 donors and misappropriating approximately $100,000 in donations, The Boston Globe reports.
The men, George Borden, Frank Cariello, William Lewis, Ronald Seeley, and his son Brandon, presented themselves as fund raisers for police and veterans organizations. But rather than directing the money to the nonprofit groups they said they represented, the men used the donations for car and house payments, jewelry, and other personal expenses, according to the state attorney general.
An investigation of the five men started two years ago, after several donors became suspicious of the men and alerted the state attorney general’s office.
The five men have been charged with larceny, attempted larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny, deceptive professional solicitation practices, and gross fraud.
The newspaper did not include any comment on whether the men said they were involved in the solicitations.
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