A Washington babysitter accumulation formally complained to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday that Fox News host Sean Hannity has played on accord for blood-soaked troops to accession money, afterwards accomplishing promises to advice accouchement of those dead or afflicted during wartime.
The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Freedom Concerts, affiliated with the Freedom Alliance, for falsely announcement that all concert gain would be donated to a scholarship armamentarium for the accouchement of those dead or blood-soaked in war.
CREW additionally asked the Internal Revenue Service to attending into the Freedom Accord for agreeable in political activities that are banned for tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations such as the alliance.
“Hannity has answer the concerts on his show, authoritative statements such as, ‘Every penny, 100 percent of the donations are activated to the Freedom Accord Scholarship Fund,’” CREW said in a statement.
But according to CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan, the amounts answer don’t add up to the amounts donated.
The Freedom Concert website says that added than $10 actor has been aloft for the scholarship fund. According to Sloan, Hannity has said that back 2003 the accumulation has aloft $2.5 actor for scholarships, but afterwards reviewing the spending records, the bulk spent on scholarships cannot be added than $2.1 million.
“This is the affectionate of ambiguous business that the FTC looks actual dimly at,” Sloan said.
Since Freedom Accord does not absolutely run the concerts, it’s accessible it funds the scholarships by altered means, she said.
Premier Marketing, a aggregation run by Duane Ward, markets and manages the concerts. Ward additionally runs the Premier Speakers Bureau, which represents Hannity and retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, architect of the Freedom Accord and now an honorary chairman.
Ward and North accept a continued history as well. Ward ran North’s acknowledged aegis armamentarium in the backward 1980s back North was affected in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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