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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nBobo and Liberal Civvie send us a link to the story about this National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, the CEO of which is J. Thomas Burch, a Veterans’ Affairs attorney -deputy director in the VA’s Office of General Counsel. According to CNN<\/a>, during 2010 through 2014, they took in $29 million in donations. Pretty impressive, huh? Well, until you realize that only 2% of their donations went to Vietnam veterans. Nearly $8 million went to pay professional telemarketers. They earned a “Zero Star” rating from Charity Navigator – quite an accomplishment, huh?<\/p>\n When contacted by CNN, Burch asked that we not contact him at his job at the Department of Veterans Affairs, but he refused to answer phone calls placed to his home. CNN tried to confront Burch as he drove home from work in a black Rolls Royce, but upon seeing a CNN camera crew, Burch gunned the Rolls Royce down his suburban Washington, D.C. street and disappeared.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, that’s right, he drives a Rolls Royce.<\/p>\n According to the charity’s tax filings, though, it accounted for about $122,000 in cash donations to veterans, out of more than $8.5 million raised in donations in 2014. That is less than 2% of the charities cash donations being used to support veterans and their families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Nice work if you can get it, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"