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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nABC Action News<\/a> in Tampa Bay, Florida investigates their local charity – Veterans in Need Foundation, Inc.<\/a> in Pompano Beach and they find convicted violent offenders, sex offenders and various criminals set up aggressively collecting donations. According to Charity Navigator<\/a>, they raised $448,969 in 2014, the last time they filed an IRS Form 990 as a 501(c)(3) organization.<\/p>\n Visitors to Florida’s rest stops and welcome centers give hundreds-of-thousands of dollars a year to the Veterans in Need Foundation, a non-profit charity based in Pompano Beach, FL.<\/p>\n Not all of the people soliciting spent time in the military. <\/p>\n Koleff admitted he\u2019s not a veteran, but refers to himself as a 12 year volunteer for Veterans in Need.<\/p>\n \u201cI just come out here and raise money,\u201d said David Tussie, whose identification card indicates he is a non-veteran solicitor and a supervisor.<\/p>\n Donald Vincent, who we found nodding off in his chair outside a rest area along I-75, wouldn\u2019t give us his full name, but we learned who he was from the permit issued.<\/p>\n Vincent is a registered sex offender from Broward County, where the charity is based. <\/p>\n Nick Koleff, also from Broward County, served time for attempted sexual battery, false imprisonment and multiple DUIs. .<\/p>\n \u201cThey do a background check on us to make sure we’re legit,\u201d Koleff told us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A legit what?<\/p>\n The organization doesn’t have a physical address, only a PO Box at a UPS Store. The last time they had an actual office, county health officials found men living in those offices with no bathing facilities.<\/p>\n Despite these shady elements, the state of Florida issues them a permit to solicit every year;<\/p>\n