{"id":447145,"date":"2010-03-19T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79724"},"modified":"2010-03-19T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T14:54:21","slug":"is-sean-hannity%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98freedom-concert%e2%80%99-series-skimping-on-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447145","title":{"rendered":"Is Sean Hannity\u2019s \u2018Freedom Concert\u2019 Series Skimping on Charity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel follows a tip and finds enough problems <\/a>with Sean Hannity’s “Freedom Concerts” — star-studded events meant to pay for scholarships for the children of fallen soldiers — to dub them “scams.”<\/p>\n

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According to its 2006 tax returns<\/strong><\/a>, Freedom Alliance reported revenue of $10,822,785, but only $397,900\u2013or a beyond-measly 3.68%\u2013of that was given to the children of fallen troops as scholarships or as aid to severely injured soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, 62% of the money went to \u201cexpenses,\u201d including $979,485 for \u201cconsultants\u201d and an \u201cadvisor.\u201d Yes, consultant\/advisors got more than double what injured troops and the kids of fallen troops got. The tax forms show that \u201cNew World Aviation\u201d got paid $60,601 for \u201cair travel.\u201d Was that for Hannity\u2019s G5? Like I said, neither the charity nor Hannity is talking. And finally, that year, Freedom Alliance spent $1,730,816 on postage and shipping and $1,414,215 on printing, for a total of $3,145,031, nearly half the revenue the charity spent that year and about eight times what the injured troops and the children of fallen ones received.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing — Freedom Concerts didn’t respond to Schlussel, who often operates on the fringe. But other conservatives are starting to pile on<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel follows a tip and finds enough problems with Sean Hannity’s “Freedom Concerts” — star-studded events meant to pay for scholarships for the children of fallen soldiers — to dub them “scams.” According to its 2006 tax returns, Freedom Alliance reported revenue of $10,822,785, but only $397,900\u2013or a beyond-measly 3.68%\u2013of that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}