{"id":55808,"date":"2014-10-14T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55808"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:30:07","slug":"indiana-cracks-down-on-scam-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55808","title":{"rendered":"Indiana cracks down on scam charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2014\/09\/26\/71843.htm\">Courthouse News Service<\/a> which reports that the Indiana  attorney general is going after three veteran charities;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Indiana sued Sandbox Veterans of America, Catholic Veterans of Indiana, and Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc., in Allen County Court.<br \/>\n     Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc. is a &#8220;sham group&#8221; that is not affiliated with the &#8220;well-known and respected&#8221; Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, the attorney general says.<br \/>\n     The state also sued the four people who incorporated the groups: Adam Matthew Silvani (Sandbox), Olivia Jean Locke aka Olivia Jean Silvani (Catholic Veterans), Roger Anthony Locke (Catholic Veterans), and Donald Shoppe (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans), all of Fort Wayne.<br \/>\n     The defendants have solicited charitable contributions since June 2011, but &#8220;the contributions were not given to veterans as represented,&#8221; the state says in its Sept. 19 complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdrise.com\/iava-jr\">the sham IAVA, Inc.<\/a> even used Paul Rieckhoff&#8217;s name in it&#8217;s solicitation materials. I don&#8217;t like IAVA or Rieckhoff, but I hate thieves even more. Their &#8220;Crowdrise&#8221; fund raising site even linked to the real IAVA&#8217;s site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to Courthouse News Service which reports that the Indiana attorney general &hellip; <a title=\"Indiana cracks down on scam charities\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55808\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indiana cracks down on scam charities<\/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-55808","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\/55808","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=55808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}