May 30, 2011
Oregon’s Attorney General Aims His Sights on Charities’ Spending
“Whether we’re going to continue to provide a tax subsidy for all nonprofits regardless of performance is a serious national question,” says John Kroger.
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“Whether we’re going to continue to provide a tax subsidy for all nonprofits regardless of performance is a serious national question,” says John Kroger.
Portland, Ore.
As a federal prosecutor in New York, John Kroger helped put Mafia thugs from the city’s toughest neighborhoods behind bars.
Now settled amid pine trees and mountains on the other side of the country, he no longer faces violent criminals in big-city courtrooms. But as Oregon’s attorney general, he regularly squares off against groups that he considers public threats of a different sort—charities that misrepresent themselves to donors or divert most of their donations
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