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Photo illustration by ProPublica; source image: Milton Hershey School, MHS 2018 IRS Form 990 Long ago, and to great fanfare, business tycoon Milton Hershey revealed that he had given away his world-famous chocolate company, a gift to the school for poor orphans that he had founded with his wife. “Well, I have no children — that is, no heirs,” he said in 1923. “So I decided to make the orphan boys of the United States my heirs.” Hershey died in 1945, leaving a huge estate and a compan...

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