Posted on 11/17/2006 7:41:22 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, under fire for a lack of financial accountability, spent nearly $450,000 last year for volunteers to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border -- about $31,000 more than it collected in donations and registration fees -- according to a report released yesterday.[snip]...
[snip].... While the IRS papers document MCDC collections and expenditures through Dec. 31, a reported donation total of $418,493 is significantly less than the $1.6 million MCDC President Chris Simcox told The Washington Times in July that the group had collected in donations since its April 2005 creation. That figure was said to include $1 million in direct MCDC contributions and $600,000 toward the construction of a $55 million border fence. [snip]..
[snip]... In July, several MCDC leaders and volunteers questioned the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars in donations the organization had collected.
Several of the group's top lieutenants either quit or threatened to quit, saying requests to Mr. Simcox for a financial accounting have been ignored. Others said money promised for supplies never reached volunteers at the border.
Mr. Simcox, during the July interview, denied the accusations, describing his critics as "known racialists, anti-Semites and a small handful of disgruntled people who have been terminated from staff or from leadership involvement with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps over a year ago because they could not meet MCDC standards or adhere to our strict field standard operational procedures."
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I don't know enough about the rules, if any, governing Caging
to say whether it is proper for Otis to be a corporate officer
of MCDC, Inc.
"..I'm interested in page 6 of the Form 990, where it asks if any of the officers of the company are related to any of the companies listed in Part II, which lists the expenses including caging fees.
On the form, it says NO, even though some of the money seems to have gone to Maureen Otis' caging company.
Isn't that a conflict of interest, and shouldn't the question have been answered YES?.."
I guess you noticed that EV stayed away from this thread, unlike an previous thread.
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