It seems you cannot get away from Crooks lately…from the Political theater on TV 24/7 (The Bread and Circus Circuit) to Lying Corporate Assholes abusing their office and using money that was supposed to go to helping Wounded Veterans and their Families and instead using it to stay at Expensive resorts and God knows what else. You people make me sick. -SF
The Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating officer of the Wounded Warrior Project were fired Thursday after an investigation into lavish spending by the veterans charity, according to a report by CBS News.
Wounded Warrior Project’s CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were fired by the charity’s board amid criticisms about how it spends more than $800 million raised in donations in the past four years, CBS News reported.
The charity’s board of directors made their decision after a meeting in New York City, where they received preliminary results of a financial and policy audit, sources told CBS News.
The charity came under fire after an earlier CBS News investigation in January revealed large amounts of spending on administration, meetings, and travel.
In January, Charity Navigator, a group that oversees nonprofit organizations, placed Wounded Warrior Project on its watch list, Fox News reported, citing a separate CBS report.
Army Staff Sergeant Erick Millette, who returned from Iraq in 2006 with a bronze star and a purple heart, told CBS News at the time that he admired the charity’s work and took a job with the group in 2014 but quit after two years.
“Their mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors, but what the public doesn’t see is how they spend their money,” he said.
Millette said he witnessed lavish spending on staff, with big “catered” parties.
Also in the previous interview, two former employees, who were so fearful of retaliation they asked that CBS News not show their faces on camera, said spending has skyrocketed since Nardizzi took over as CEO in 2009, pointing to the 2014 annual meeting at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs.
“He rappelled down the side of a building at one of the all hands events. He’s come in on a Segway, he’s come in on a horse,” one employee told CBS News.
Fred Kaine, in the recent interview, questioned Nardizzi’s apparent public absence while his organization has been under scrutiny.
“Where is this guy? You lead from the front—good or bad—you don’t hide,” he said, “If no one is going to talk about this right now and it has to be me, then it has to be me.”
Kane said he has cut charitable ties with the Wounded Warrior Project, embarking on a new charge to effect change at the organization.
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Not a happy report. Individuals exceeding the 503C intent.
In contrast, there was a man, who did children’s charity work. He used to turn off any light bulb he felt unnecessary and skimped. People said that he was a cheapskate, but he gave just about everything over to the children. He would give a look, and not say a word. Then people understood.
This current report, involving those whom sacrificed a bit more than most, deserve Maximum Effort from the charities whose mission, is directly linked to the lives of the veterans and their families, who endure so much, and always place the wounded veterans, first, in the family’s priority heading.