The nation’s lowest-rated veterans alms is run by a advocate at the Department of Veterans Affairs with a six-figure income.
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The National Vietnam Veterans Foundation gave aloof $122,000 in banknote donations to veterans in 2014 admitting affairs in $8.5 million, tax annal acquired by CNN show.
J. Thomas Burch, the CEO and architect of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, sped off in a Rolls Royce back confronted by the arrangement on Monday.
“Mr. Burch! Mr Burch! Mr Burch!” a anchorman implored as the agent took off bottomward a burghal artery in Washington, D.C. The arrangement capital to apperceive how aloof 2 percent of all donations to NVVF were funneled to absolute Vietnam veterans.
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Charity Navigator, one of the best affecting alms babysitter organizations in the U.S., gave Mr. Burch’s alignment a zero-star appraisement on a four-star scale.
“You can’t go lower than that,” says Michael Thatcher, Alms Navigator’s CEO. “They don’t accept an absolute lath of directors, they absolutely don’t alike accept a absolute lath of admiral — alone three associates on the lath at this point in time and some of them are family. So one can say, is this adumbrative of an absolute board? It’s not.”
Mr. Burch, who is additionally a veteran, alike appointed an $11,128 “emergency” beverage of banknote to his brother as one of the group’s donations.
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Some of the added costs listed on the group’s 2014 tax allotment include:
Mr. Burch banned to acknowledge to CNN’s requests for comment, although David Kauffman, NVVF’s carnality president, dedicated the alignment in an email.
He said NVVF fed “homeless and unemployed veterans by altruistic to aliment banks, beatific claimed affliction kits to ailing veterans and donated blankets, hats and gloves to abandoned centers.”
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Drew Griffin, CNN’s chief analytic correspondent, told Jake Tapper that Mr. Burch’s position in the VA is now actuality advised by the agency’s Office of Inspector General.
“We accept an accessible allurement to Mr. Burch. If he wants to avert his zero-star rated charity, we are blessed to sit bottomward and listen,” Mr. Griffin said.
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