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CBS News Alleges Feed the Children Inflated Claims of Haiti Aid



- Feed the Children is responding to a CBS News report alleging the Oklahoma-City base charity exaggerated claims about its work in Haiti.

A CBS News investigation reports the charity inflated claims about its help in Haiti. In online email messages and on its web site, the charity claimed donations funded a huge camp in Haiti, providing medical relief for 12,000 people.

But CBS reports the camp was set up by local monks and nuns, not Feed the Children. Their investigation also asserts doctors treated fewer patients than claimed and the charity reportedly wasn't feeding anybody there.

Feed the Children also made claims that the UN chose them "to distribute food and milk for the entire camp," but officials for the UN said those claims were false, according to the CBS News report.

"We will certainly look into the difference of opinion as to exactly how much help we're providing and exactly who is involved with it," said Tony Sellars, Feed the Children Spokesperson.

Feed the Children released a statement regarding CBS's report. Part of the statement read, "In the month since the earthquake we have received and distributed more than $12 million dollars in supplies, including nearly $5 million dollars in food. This equates to 80 truckloads of relief so far or almost two million pounds of supplies. Because of our experience, we were asked to provide medical assistance and supplies at a camp designed for more than 12,000 people. We are currently providing shelter and milk for children and families in that camp. We're proud of the work we've done and we plan to continue."

Read the entire response from Feed the Children

A Feed the Children worker at Feed the Children's camp in Haiti, told CBS News that not one donation from Feed the Children ever reached her in Haiti. Last week, she resigned.


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mii wandar iff dat de charitee wey advertise late nite pon tv

dat charitee wey use dem starvinn yuths wey wukk inn garbage dump shood shame oww dem xxploitinn likkle yuths. fiyah pon awl charitee wey xxploitinn diaster fii scam

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<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;Feed the Children&quot; Charity Under Fire
Exclusive: CBS News Investigation into a Billion-Dollar-a-Year Charity That Solicited Aid for Haiti</span>


&quot;Feed the Children&quot; is perhaps best known by its infomercials featuring founder, the Reverend Larry Jones.

&quot;For only $8 a month, you can help feed a child. Would you go to your phone,&quot; Jones said in a commercial.

After the Haiti earthquake, the charity sprang into action. The Oklahoma City headquarters buzzed with activity, as donors sent in a million dollars in cash.

&quot;Right now, we need your help like never before to get urgently needed relief to Haiti,&quot; the commercial said.

CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports most donors have no idea about the nasty family feud that's tearing apart the billion-dollar a year charity.

On one side: founder Larry Jones. On the other: his daughter Larri Sue, and the charity's Board of Directors. It came to a head more than a year ago when each side accused the other of the worst sort of financial improprieties.

In a lawsuit, Larry Jones accuses the Board of serious financial neglect, claims his daughter misused charity funds including living in a $1.2 million dollar Los Angeles home on the charity's dime, and that she engaged in illegal schemes to cover up unpaid taxes.


Larri Sue denies any wrongdoing. The board claims it's her father who got caught taking bribes and kickbacks, awarded himself and his wife unauthorized pay raises and went so far as to bug the executive offices.

Larry Jones fired his daughter and Board members who opposed him. But when a judge resintated them, they turned around and fired him.

&quot;Larry Jones has not engaged in any financial improprieties whatsoever,&quot; said his lawyer Mark Hammons.

&quot;Has Larry Jones done anything wrong,&quot; Attkisson asked.

&quot;Yeah,&quot; Hammons replied. &quot;He made a mistake. He relied on people, and they let him down.&quot;

But the Christian charity's donors might feel let down by the most scandalous allegations, about pornography and sexual and racist emails.

&quot;Feed the Children&quot; says it found incest-related porn in Reverend Larry Jones' office.

Larry Jones counters by producing racist and inappropriate emails that he claims were traded by top executives. &quot;Plot to kidnap Obama&quot; a watermelon under a box trap. &quot;if she looks too young, just assume she's 18.&quot;

Watchdog Daniel Borochoff says donors should see lots of red flags. He's been questioning the charity's practices for more than a decade.

&quot;It's ridiculous this charity can continue to raise money and have its hand out to the donating public,&quot; Borochoff said.

We asked &quot;Feed the Children&quot; spokesman Tony Sellars about Borochoff's allegations.

&quot;Only 21-23 percent of your cash donations that people give actually go to program services,&quot; Attkisson said.

&quot;I can't address that,&quot; Sellars said. &quot;I just address to the people that when they support us, what they want us to do is feed families and children, and that's what we're doing.&quot;

&quot;Fifty-four percent of cash is spent on TV, radio ads and direct mail,&quot; Attkisson said.

&quot;No, again, I cannot verify or comment to that,&quot; Sellars replied.

Sellars says the good they do can be seen all over the world - like in Nashville, where they distributed food and personal items to the needy.

Borochoff warns that looks can be deceiving.

&quot;Certainly they're going to be doing some good, enough - not to be too cynical here - but enough good to look good in the fundraising and promotion of charity,&quot; Borochoff said.

Which brings us to Haiti. In online e-mail messages and on its Web site, &quot;Feed the Children&quot;, the chairty claimed it set up a base and was running a huge camp &quot;providing medical relief for 12,000 people.&quot;

CBS News decided to send a camera to the camp in Carrefour, west of Port-au-Prince, to see for ourselves.

We found the camp was set up by local monks and nuns, not &quot;Feed the Children.&quot;

What about the claim that &quot;Feed the Children&quot; was running the camp? Apparently, that's not true either.

We did find a small, well-meaning &quot;Feed the Children&quot; staff - apparently unaware of the inflated fundraising claims being made by headquarters.

&quot;Feed the Children's&quot; Dr. Stephan Villatt said, &quot;We have three doctors working here.&quot;

You might ask how three doctors are handling the supposed 12,000 patients. They're not. It's more like a hundred a day.

&quot;Feed the Children&quot; also claimed that the United Nations chose them &quot;to distribute food and milk for the entire camp.&quot;

But that's false according to the United Nations, and the account from &quot;Feed the Children's&quot; own manager in the field, Rachel Zelon. Zelon told us the UN actually chose another charity called &quot;ADRA.&quot;

Back in Oklahoma City, we confronted Sellars -- who was unaware that we'd been to the camp.

&quot;Is it your impression that you are, that &quot;Feed the Children&quot; is in charge of the camp,&quot; Attkisson asked.

&quot;That is my impression at this point,&quot; Sellars said.

&quot;Because we visited the camp, and 'Feed the Children' is not running it,&quot; Attkisson said. &quot;Does that surprise you to know?&quot;

&quot;I would certainly have to look into that,&quot; Sellars said.

&quot;The U.N. says it didn't ask you to be in charge of the camp,&quot; Attkisson continued.

&quot;I can't comment,&quot; Sellars replied. &quot;I have no direct conversation with them, so I'd have to look at that.

Most shocking of all: more than two weeks after the quake &quot;Feed the Children&quot; despite its name wasn't feeding anybody.

&quot;At this point, we're not doing food,&quot; Zelon said.

&quot;There was not any food or meals being handed out. Does that surprise you,&quot; Attkisson asked.

&quot;That does surprise me at this time, yes,&quot; Sellars said.

Sellars left to chat privately with one of his Vice Presidents. He then returned and told us this:

&quot;We will certainly look into the difference of opinion as to exactly how much help we're providing, and exactly who is involved with it,&quot; he said.

Rachel Zelon, the &quot;Feed the Children&quot; worker we first saw at the camp in Carrefour, later contacted us to explain why the charity wasn't feeding anyone there. She told us not one donation from &quot;Feed the Children&quot; ever reached her in Haiti.

Last week, she resigned.

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Re: feed the children haiti scam??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mii wandar iff dat de charitee wey advertise late nite pon tv

dat charitee wey use dem starvinn yuths wey wukk inn garbage dump shood shame oww dem xxploitinn likkle yuths </div></div>
Those charity scams aren't exploiting little kids. They are exploiting altuistic people, who want to give a hand to little kids, who are living through a catastrophe.

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Re: doan feed the children haiti scam??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">mii wandar iff dat de charitee wey advertise late nite pon tv

dat charitee wey use dem starvinn yuths wey wukk inn garbage dump shood shame oww dem xxploitinn likkle yuths </div></div>
Those charity scams aren't exploiting little kids. They are exploiting altuistic people, who want to give a hand to little kids, who are living through a catastrophe. </div></div>

wen dem advertise begginn money fii feed da haitians ann den itt tunn out dat dem natt feedinn da haitians fiyah affii bunn cah dem xxploitinn diaster fii scam


a likkle more camplicated dan dat fortylegz. look carefullee ann yu will see dat de guv dem a privatized disaster relief. itt iss dem charitees dat diss disaster relief respansiblitees ar fallinn pon. soo iff altuistic peeps doan stepp inna da role dat manee guv vacate da level aff suffarinn aggoo increase. dat y fiyah ann more fiyah affii bunn pon dem charitee fii ensure a level aff transparanceee ann dat dem live upp too da pramise dem mekkinn fii gitt donations

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Sometimes it seems like everyone is corrupt and has bad mind. Who do you think should be in charge? Do you think that all of the money donated to charaties for Haiti ought to be given to the Haitian government?

I'm pretty anxious about when the rains start falling in April... there are a million or more people living outside now. And if a hurricane passes near them... with days of heavy rain and wind. I can't imagine what anyone can do for them, or even where to start. I have to believe that there are intelligent people with good hearts working feverishly on saving lives in Haiti.

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Re: doan feed haitian children scam??

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Sometimes it seems like everyone is corrupt and has bad mind. Who do you think should be in charge? Do you think that all of the money donated to charaties for Haiti ought to be given to the Haitian government?

I'm pretty anxious about when the rains start falling in April... there are a million or more people living outside now. And if a hurricane passes near them... with days of heavy rain and wind. I can't imagine what anyone can do for them, or even where to start. I have to believe that there are intelligent people with good hearts working feverishly on saving lives in Haiti. </div></div>

surlee yu jess bout give dem donation to da haitian guvernment. de haitian guv more corrupt dan a latt aff dem oyinbo teefinn charitee. yu ear oww mannee protests dem haitians add cumplaininn bout da haitian guv hoardinn food ann natt feed dem starvinn peeps. dat y sum haitians were chattinn bout dem wish merica wood tekk over. da wan ting da earthquake pinted out iss oww inept ann impotent haiti guv iss

yu made a carrect argument bout wat aggoo appen wen itt tart fii rain cah a latt aff peeps doan even ave tent. imagine dem weaken buildinn iff hurricane wind batter dem .

look pon da aard ooman wey resigned (mii wandar iff shii wass forced fii quit) aftah shii pint out dat noo money ar supplied reached ar. mii ave soo much respekk fii ar dat mii wood natt mind iff shame feed da children ova dat. wii affii defend da good peeps ann bunn da wikked xxploiters

disaster capitalism wear guv privatized disaster relief iss trickee cah iff itt natt regulated peeps will eventuallee stapp givinn doanations to chariteefs

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evry government is corrupt.

right now its election time in Toronto and the commissioner for public transit is 32 years old-heres the corruption:

we have a mayoral election.
main contenders are George Smitherman a openly gay old fart
and a greasy dago wop named Mammolitti

now there trying to say that the young transit commissioner is inept to manage the transit systym--
so when one of them gets elected as mayor, they can appoint one of there cronies to head the public transit.

thats corrupt.