will be dissolved. the complaint also includes potential fines including $136 million and in explicit detail have outlined how donations for cancer charities were spent, instead, on luxury lifestyles the personal spending, says jessica rich with the ftc s bureau of consumer protection appears to have had no limits. cars for the individual defendants and others working at the companies, interest-free loans and college tuition for the individual defendants. meals at hooters, gim memberships, cell phone apps and games, movie tickets, carnival cruises in the caribbean, a trip to disney world, jet ski rentals, and babysitters for the kids while people were on these boondoggles. reporter: james reynolds sr. is the only member of the family fighting back. he now runs both the cancer fund of america and its sister group, cancer support services. he s refused to talk to us for the past three years and apparently is refusing to shut down. a federal trade commission will
according to the complaint, specific promises to help cancer patients were untrue these were lies the complaint said and the reynolds family charities helped themselves and rampant nepotism and hiring friends and relatives for big salaries. and james reynolds jr. who ran the breast cancer society, hired his assistance christina hickson to be his relations manager and then married her, her salary 135,000 dollars. and the charity hired her two sisters and her son by a previous marriage and her son and step-nephew and none with the qualifications for the job.
correspondent, drew griffin, and his producer david fitzpatrick, have spent more than three years exposing a wide array of fraudulent charities across the country. their reporting resulted in lawsuits and eventually settlements against some of those charities. and now a crackdown that the federal trade commission is call historic. today the commission and the attorneys general of all 50 states filed court papers allegedly, quote, a massive nationwide fraud on the part of four so-called cancer charities that had been the focus of much of drew griffin s reporting. now, these four charities are based in knoxville, tennessee, and mesa arizona, and they re controlled by a single family. here s drew griffin, keeping em honest. reporter: we called them some of the worst charities in the u.s. and they responded with silence. don t don t don t turn your camera on me okay? reporter: shutting doors in our face. if you have any other questions, please send them to her e-mail. okay
associate, james whitey bulger. we ll show you what happened during their courtroom confrontation. we begin with keeping them honest. last week after profiling charities that seemed to only care about their profits, i challenge the people who run them to come on this program or talk to our correspondent, drew griffin. let them explain the facts uncovered by drew, the tampa bay times and the central for investigative reporting that show these charities, and i use that term loosely, to be abusing and squandering your hard earned money. not one of the three has taken us up on that challenge. two of the three have spoken up elsewhere. the thing they re saying raise more questions and don t make sense. before we go to drew griffin who has the latest, i want to show you his latest report so you can reacquaint yourself with all the players they believed would help cancer victims.
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