Two men charged with stealing from donations for Afghan kids

USA Today ^ | 8.16.02 | Richard Benedetto

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WASHINGTON -- Americans have donated more than $10.3 million to aid Afghan children in the 10 months since President Bush asked them to help in a televised address.

But the program was marred last week when two men who worked at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., screening White House mail were arrested and charged with stealing thousands of dollars, including cash donations sent by children.

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The American Red Cross manages America's Fund for Afghan Children under an agreement with the White House......

Are these creeps on the Red Cross payroll?

Ashland, Missouri...(I did a search for this story and didn't find it... hope this is not a duplicate post)

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''We don't know how much was stolen, but however much it was, it was a terrible thing,'' says Stacey Grissom, an American Red Cross spokeswoman

Uhhh, the ARC isn't so pristine itself regarding donations--especially those to the 911 victims, etc.

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from a Philly paper:

The pair were working for a private contractor decontaminating a "restricted" mailroom at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, where the Secret Service screens White House mail.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Beam Winter said Scaccia Construction and Environmental Services, a Scranton-area company, had been hired after anthrax-contaminated letters were sent to some lawmakers last fall.