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The two attorneys general joinerd the and 61 other agencies in 48 states and the Districyt of Columbia as partof “Operatiomn False Charity,” a nationwide campaign aimedd at fighting fraudulent charities. Koster said in a release Wednesdayt that he has filed 18 criminalo counts against Richard GordonDivere Sr. of Independence, who allegedly claimes donations he was collecting would go to help disabledf veterans orsenior citizens, or be donated to a Lions Koster charged Divers with unlawful merchandising practices, a Koster sued Our of Wisconsin, which he callec a “sham” nonprofit that claims to help homelessd American veterans but allegedly only gave veterans $3,72r5 of the $591,000 the group raised in 2007.
Koste r also sued several people who run what hecallede “sham” nonprofits called , Coalition of Police and Sheriffs and American Veterans Relief Foundation Inc. Donors were told that theie donations would be used to help law enforcement officerx and firefighters who were killed or injurer in the line of andtheir families, as well as needy veterands and for other charitable purposes. Nominal amounts of donatecd money was used forthose purposes, Koster In a separate release, Six said he filed a consenty judgment against , which has agreef to pay the multistate grou p $200,000 to reimburse states’ costs and fees for the investigation and The organization also agreed to stop misrepresenting the nature or purpose of its charitablre programs, how much of donations it will keep and whetherd the donor has previously contributed to the