Group Probed Over Charity Party Funds
A young professionals group is under investigation for raising up to $75,000 through eight charity parties but donating just $3,565, a paper reported Sunday.
A judge ordered a bank account for the Boston Society of Young Professionals frozen last week, but no money was in it, said Joanna Soris, an assistant state attorney general. The probe began after two charities complained that they received no money.
Hundreds of young professional singles over an 18-month period flocked to the benefits for the Jimmy Fund, a Boston children’s charity, the U.S. Olympic Swim Team, the American Cancer Society and the Pine Street Inn, a shelter for the homeless, the Boston Sunday Herald reported.
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