it made called gifts in kind like those coconut m&ms were useless to veterans. the abuses here really span the whole gamut of abuses you can see in a charitable organization and why this is such an interesting case because they were falsifying the value of the gifts in kind. they were sending things that no disabled veteran needed like m&ms and chef s hats. reporter: as a result of the settlement the dvmf founding board members including hits founder priscilla wilcox is being removed from the charity. its executive director has already left and the charity is banned from doing any business with quadriga art for three years and in addition to its huge fine and forgiven debt art and itself and president mark shuloff must disclose its fund-raising costs up front so would-be charities understand just how much of the donated
has resigned. his nephew is running the company, mark shuloff, and he released this statement, saying we have taken responsibility for the mistakes that were made. we deeply apologize for our actions and have taken steps to ensure that this situation will never occur again. as for the disabled, veterans, national foundation, they re four founding members have been separated from that organization, and now they have released a statement as well saying this is very significant and a positive step for the disabled veterans national foundation. that, they say, will enable us to improve the services we deliver and increase transparency with our local donors. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. and just a huge hats off to drew and that investigative team for spending years, and it took years to really open that door and find out what was going on inside and then ultimately make a difference and keep those people honest.
as a result of the settlement, the dnf founding board members are being removed from the charity. money has gone to any veterans? its executive director has already left and the charity is banned from doing any business with quad riga art for three years. in addition to its huge fine and the forgiven debt, quad riga art itself and its president mark shuloff must now fully disclose its fund-raising costs s up fro so would-be charities understand how much of the donated money, your donated money, quad riga will keep for itself. the donor s intent, in this case, was to help disabled veterans. and to take money that people are trying to spend to help disabled veterans just to feed your own overhead and to pay your executives as quad riga did here is despicable. quad riga art announced a uncle who helped run the company
front so would-be charity understand just how much of the donated money, your donated money, quadriga will keep for itself. the donor s intent was to help disabled veterans and take money people are trying to spend just to feed your own overhead and to pay your executives off as quadriga did here. it is pretty despicable. announcing that an uncle who helped run the company, has resigned. his nephew is running the company, mark shuloff. he said we have taken responsibility for mistakes made. we deeply apologize for our actions and have taken steps to ensure that this situation will never occur again. as for the disabled veterans national foundation, their forfounding memberes have been separating from that organization and now they have released a statement as well