California's attorney general is suing a Sonoma County nonprofit called Aid for Starving Children, saying it misled donors with claims of good works. Davidlaz weighs in:
California's attorney general is suing a Sonoma County nonprofit, saying it misled donors with claims of good works.
“Most people on this Earth would want to aid starving children,” Becerra told me. “But when you have an organization that does anything but, you need to notify the public.”Dr. Monte Wilson, president of Aid for Starving Children’s board of directors and a defendant in the lawsuit, did not return calls for comment. A lawyer for the group called efforts to change how pharmaceutical donations are valued “misguided.”— makes its way through the state Legislature.
And the $97.4 million figure is suspect, the suit says, because Aid for Starving Children valued the contributions based on U.S. list prices, which typically are the highest in the world, rather than the significantly lower prices in countries where the drugs were used.The lawsuit doesn’t make a guess at how much the organization may have fudged the numbers.
Paul Murphy, a lawyer for Aid for Starving Children, told me prior to the filing of Becerra’s lawsuit that there’s nothing misleading about the organization relying so heavily on pharmaceutical donations. In 2012, according to the suit, the IRS contacted the group about “certain deficiencies” in its record-keeping and reporting practices, including how donated goods were being used.
Murphy, the group’s lawyer, said that “if you’re helping a child’s parents, you’re helping the child.”“It’s called Aid for Starving Children, not Aid for Parents of Starving Children,” he said. “This is as deceptive as you can get.”on Aid for Starving Children’s website is almost exclusively populated with kids, giving the impression that they, not their parents, are the focus of the organization’s charitable activities.
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