Children's Leukemia Foundation Accused in $9.7 Million Fraud

The New York-based National Children's Leukemia Foundation appealed to donors across the country, promising lifesaving services, such as locating bone marrow donors, conducting cancer research and even claiming to run a program called "Make a Dream Come True" to fulfill the last wishes of dying cancer-stricken children.

The New York attorney general's office said the organization did none of this.

Businesses and families across the nation opened their hearts, and wallets, to fund the Brooklyn organization, which, according to Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman's office, fraudulently raised $9.7 million and paid out only $57,000—less than 1 percent—in direct assistance to leukemia patients.