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Since 2018, attorneys general in every state, D.C., and several U.S. territories have coordinated with the Federal Trade Commission and the National Association of State Charities Officials to combat veterans’ fundraising fraud. The joint initiative Operation Donate with Honor targets fraudulent charities that claim to use their donations to help America’s veterans and groups, but in actuality enrich the charities’ founders and professional fundraisers. Consequently, the joint initiative has resulted in over 100 enforcement actions.
As part of this larger joint effort with federal regulators, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson led 11 state attorneys general earlier this month to reached a settlement with Florida-based nonprofit Healing Heroes Network and its former directors for allegedly misrepresenting that consumers’ donations would provide medical care for wounded veterans, when in fact little of the