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PITTSTON – The annual Pittston Memorial Library’s 2023 Jean Yates Awards dinner is set for Friday, April 12, at Fox Hill Country Club…
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PITTSTON – The annual Pittston Memorial Library’s 2023 Jean Yates Awards dinner is set for Friday, April 12, at Fox Hill Country Club…
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Where are taking off? >> reporter: the question is how can these little-known charities take tax credit for shipping millions of dollars in medicines to guatemala. it's all in the back door brokering of noncash donations, what charities call gifts in kind. critics call that an easy way for pretty bad charities to look pretty good. by overvaluing their donations. how? tom tigue was disgusted when he found out. he runs a reputable charity called direct relief. from his warehouse in california, he supplies free medicines to rural clinics in the u.s., to disasters overseas, to almost any medical r...
$3 million. within the week, he had a thank you letter for his $100 million donation. >> you personally know that is true. >> right. well, we've seen examples, including with products that we have given and assigned a value to which we know is correct, and then seen it in the handoff to another charitable organization be revalued at as many as, i don't know, 40 times higher, which is absurd. >> reporter: tigue tracked down what happened and found a man named cliff feldman, a broker who lives in florida, was working with charity services international in that south carolina warehouse and accord...