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Financial records for a non-profit group that claimed they help veterans and their families showed the organization has spent tens of millions of dollars on marketing services and given out "useless" items smaller vet groups said they can't even use.
The Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF) is based in Washington, D.C. People hoping to help veterans have given them nearly $56 million in donations since they opened in 2007.
A CNN Investigation revealed DVNF's tax filings with the IRS showed that almost none of the money went where the donors thought it would. Instead, the charity made big payments to a direct mail fundraising company called Quadriga Art and its subsidiary. They paid them nearly $61 million for their direct-mail services.
The independent group CharityWatch gave the DVNF an "F" grade.
A veterans charity in Birmingham told CNN the DVNF sent them 2,600 bags of cough drops, 2,200 bottles of sanitizer and 11,520 bags of Coconut M&M's after the April 27th tornados, things the organizers said they didn't need.
The DVNF reportedly squandered million of dollars.
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