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November 04, 2008
Northwest Chapter Fights National Health Charity's Actions
The Northwest chapter of the American Lung Association said on Monday that it would fight the national charity’s efforts to dissolve it over a real-estate sale and other disputes, reports the Associated Press.
“This is the kind of a dispute between two charitable nonprofits that should have been settled in the family,” Laird Harris, chairman-elect of the Northwest affiliate’s board, said in a written statement. “ [The American Lung Association’s] aggressive and destructive decision to pursue the matter in court and in the media is damaging to our common mission of promoting lung health.”
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The Executive Director of the Northwest Chapter of a National Charity converts a $2.5 million dollar asset by selling the building to his own corporation for $10? That is nothing less than theft, plain and simple. That Executive Director should go to jail and that Chapter should be dissolved and reconstituted by the National organization with a new board of directors. Legal action is clearly the responsible course of action by the National office. Case closed.
— Gordon Johnson Nov 15, 02:09 PM #