May 1, 2008

Is the Gavel Coming Down on Charity Fund-Raising Auctions?

By Bob Levey

It had glamour, it had luxury, it had excitement, it had everything. It was a pair of front-row guest tickets to a taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago — plus a suite at a top hotel, dinner for two at one of the city's best restaurants, plus airfare, plus limo.

I was the auctioneer — doing perhaps my 800th such event last month in the gaily decorated East Hall of Washington's 101-year-old Union Station.

The audience of 350 included a

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