{"id":40554,"date":"2014-03-22T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40554"},"modified":"2014-03-21T19:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:26:14","slug":"texas-charges-veterans-support-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40554","title":{"rendered":"Texas charges Veterans Support Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/local-military\/veterans-charity-charged-with-deceiving-the-public\/nfH8p\/\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a> reports that a Florida-based veterans service organization, Veterans Support Organization has been charged by the Texas Attorney General with stealing from well-meaning citizens, telling them that their donations would go to local needy veterans. It was those guys standing outside supermarkets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> According to the lawsuit, the group raised $2.5 million in the state between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general\u2019s office is also seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines against VSO president Richard Van Houten and three associates.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the American-Statesman published an investigation into the group, revealing that it gave less than 1 percent of the $7.1 million it raised from the public in 2011 in grants to needy veterans. Members of the Austin and Dallas chapters quit as a group in December after managers said they became aware of how much money the group was sending out of state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, a VSO called VSO would have twigged me to scam, but, I&#8217;m not in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin American-Statesman reports that a Florida-based veterans service organization, Veterans Support Organization has been charged &hellip; <a title=\"Texas charges Veterans Support Organization\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40554\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas charges Veterans Support Organization<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}