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Betrayal of Trust? Questions dog foundation formed to aid local children
This investigation uncovered questionable expenses by a local private non-profit, which was designed to give guidance to school children. Among the expenses were thousands of dollars for travel and cars, as well as a vacation house near Las Vegas.
Tags: 990s; nonprofit; Guidestar; investigating corporations; fraud
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State of the Union
"Dateline NBC's four-part report took a comprehensive look at the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union - a labor union representing some of the lowest-paid employees in the country, whose leaders have for decades been the subject of organized crime and corruption probes.... Dateline followed a group of daring union reformers, led by a bartender and a waiter, as they waged a campaign to wrest control of their local chapter in Chicago.... Dateline's report also focused on the latest federal probe into (union boss Edward) Hanley and the union and a little-known report that detailed a litany of financial abuses by Hanley, his family and union associates...."
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Warehouses of wealth: The tax-free economy
"Nonprofit businesses are American's fastest growing industry. Yet the government doesn't keep track. There are 1.2 million organizations tax-exempt as a nonprofit, including many surprisingly profitable ones. Like the NFL. ...[ The reporters] determined the magnitude and cost of these tax-exempt businesses, which made $500 billion in 1990 -- nearly six times the incomes of farms of five times that of utilities...Taxpayers make up for what these businesses don't pay -- more than $36 billion a year, by the reporters' calculations. What do taxpayers get in return? Damned little charity." Seven-part series includes: big profits, big salaries, growing commercialism of nonprofit hospitals, universities, museums and other institutions.
Tags: taxes; hospitals; endowments; Blue Cross; Blue Shield; donors; disclosure; nonprofit insurance and pensions; real estate; property; economics; Form 990s; IRS; executive salaries