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Shriners' Investigation

Number 23979
Subject Nonprofits
Source newsvine.com
State WA
Year 2008
Publication Date 01/11/2008;02/03/2008; 02/15/2008;03/06/2008; 03/18/2008; 03/28/2008; 04/12/2008; 05/07/2008; 06/02/2008; 07/18/2008; 07/26/2008; 07/26/2008; 08/01/2008; 08/14/2008; 08/25/2008; 09/11/2008; 09/29/2008; 12/05/2008; 12/06/2008; 12/07/2008
Summary Frost has reported this story for three years, picking up where the ORlando Sentinel left off twenty years ago by focusing on how the Shriners used charitable donations to fund mortgages for executives, directors and key employees and failed to report these transactions, specifically the mortgage satisfactions, on their exempt organization tax returns (990 form.) This past year, most of Frost's focus has been on the Shriners secret sub-group, the Royal Order of Jesters who were involved in a series of sex crimes.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 151
Keywords Shriners; Royal Order of Jesters; prostitution; sex trafficking; drugs; nonprofit organizations; fraud
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