[E.G.C.]

Of course this issue has not been covered at all by CNN or ABC or CBS or NBC or CNBC or MSNBC or any of the other major media outlets. It makes one wonder why.
Regards, E.G.C.

[John Galt's cousin]

Interesting post. Thanks.

I've heard the figure of $900 million offered as the total donated so far (not just to the RedCross). Assuming 6,000 victims, that averages $150,000 per victim.

However, there are "victims" who did not perish in the attacks. Thousands who worked in the vicinity of the WTC are without jobs. I believe the Red Cross, and other charities, gave many people immediate cash assistance. ( Unfortunately some frauds seems to have been committed in applying for emergency funds.)

I don't envy the folks who have to decide who gets what. Even if you decided to give families of decedants $125,000 or $150,000 each, you would still be accused of inequities.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Wolf is interviewing victim's families on CNN right now.

[LurkerNoMore!]

The outgoing RC president will be on Lou Dobbs shortly.

It is a shame CNN had to wait until the day hearings were held to acknowledge this controversy.

[jimt]

If any of us did what the Red Cross did we'd be very liable to a fraud citation.

The Red Cross is currently a scam organization. Not a single nickel from me until they start properly accounting for and distributing the funds they receive.

[nolu chan]

Under the laws of this country, charitable organizations that receive donations can do whatever they want with them.

But can they obtain the donations under false pretenses? Is there a fraud in the inducement?

[Saundra Duffy]

Ping. For victory & freedom!!!

[Intolerant in NJ]

I knew a young lady in graduate school forty years ago who had worked at the local Red Cross office one summer and said 'way back then that she would never again contribute to the organization because of all the waste she had seen first hand - fancy office decorations, extravagant salaries, etc. etc. rather than maximum contributions to needy victims - she's a quite successful professor now, so who could argue?...

[E.G.C.]

Thanks to everybody who posted on this overnight thread. Yes, by law any charitable organization can do what it wants to with any donation it receives besides what they say it is for. That's the law that Mr. O'Reilly says is on the books.

I want to correct a few things. The T.V. concert that I mentioned was actully for the September 11th established by the United Way. The fact still remains that some of the donations were iverted to other causes besides what it was intended for.

And as for George Clooney and the poison keyboard e-mail he sent to Bill O'Reilly that was read last night on the show, First off Mr. Clooney, your viewpoints are NOT neutral. Secondly, Mr. Clooney you DO NOT speak for the majority of Americans and certainlyNOTthe vast majority of us here in Southwest Oklahoma, only for your left-wing pals in Hollywood. Lastly, Hollywood's values ARE NOTAmerica's values nor are they Southwest Oklahoma's values and the vast majority of Americans and certainly the vast majority of us here in Southwest Oklahoma DO NOT share Hollywood's worldview of things. Mr. Clooney, you sir are one example of what is absolutely what is wrong with Hollywood. You sir, are completely out of touch with the real world.
Regards.