In 1999, when the NCC lost $4 million and was running a projected budget of $62 million, one had reason to wonder what the organization was all about. It had lost $358K investing in a fraudulent stock scam, and critics who could not find out, wondered just who it was that was funding the NCC.
In 2004, NCC chief Bob Edgar managed to get himself arrested in a protest in front of the embassy of Sudan. The NCC had done absolutely nothing of note to assist the needy in either Southern or Western Sudan, and so it was not surprising when Edgar and the NCC turned on the Bush Admin blaming it for all Sudan's ills. Truth be told, the NCC is one of the last homes for America's Marxists.