More Hot Water for Frist: Charity Records Raise Questions

More Hot Water for Frist: Charity Records Raise Questions
December 17th, 2005

Already under investigation by federal authorities for possible insider trading, it seems that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist may be in more hot water as AP News reports that First’s “AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful’s nonprofit.”

The returns for World of Hope Inc., obtained by The Associated Press, also show the charity raised the lion’s share of its $4.4 million from just 18 sources. They gave between $97,950 and $267,735 each to help fund Frist’s efforts to fight AIDS.

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where the $$ for Aids funding coming from only 18 sources? If the $$ was used for another purpose, but that's not what you indicated.

I want to see Frist go down as much as you do, but I don't understand the implication here.

The charity was set up to launder political money through.

He has a staff of presidential campaigners he cannot legally pay. Yet, he wants to keep them on board. So, he hires them as consultants, or as advisers, or on his AIDS charity program.
Pays them tons of money, of stuff that allegedly was going to help AIDS patients.
He refuses to disclose the donors, and revises the tax forms repeatedly to avoid scrutiny, knowing that his presidential supporters do not want to be under the microscope.

He is a fraud, a thief and a liar with dreams of power and glory.

In essence, the AIDS program is simply a way to keep his top people ready for his next campaign. If it actually spends something on AIDS, that is more by accident than design. Good campaign people are expensive, and they need a bone between election years.

What will eventually do this gang in will come from the Delay investigation. Earle has finally issued a subpoena for Wilkes's "Group W" records, including the financial records of many of his subsidiary companies. Some of those companies seem to have existed mainly to collect defense dollars for fake contracts and then flip that money over to the RNC and their candidates.

I'm just waiting for the first prosecutor to use the operative word: racketeering.

World of Hope gave $3 million it raised to charitable AIDS causes, such as Africare and evangelical Christian groups with ties to Republicans _ Franklin Graham’s Samaritan Purse and the Rev. Luis Cortes’ Esperanza USA, for example.

The rest of the money went to overhead. That included $456,125 in consulting fees to two firms run by Frist’s longtime political fundraiser, Linus Catignani. One is jointly run by Linda Bond, the wife of Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo.

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Also, I just searched the 'net for "World of Hope Inc." so I could write them and find out if this stuff is true, but they don't appear to have a website...gee, what if I wanted to contribute to this worthy cause? How on earth would I find them?

FOund a blog saying the same thing and there is another one (www.aworldofhope.org) that's an international adoption outfit.

why do these Repukes think they are above the "rule of law".