Prosecutor: N.Y. 'Scam Charity' Duped High School Kids

More than 100 New York teenagers—and dozens in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tenn.—were duped by a Long Island-based "scam" charity into working at concession stands at major sports and entertainment venues in those cities on the promise they would be paid $9 an hour, but most received little or no compensation, prosecutors said.

Whelton Herron, president of The Herron Foundation, and another man pleaded not guilty to grand larceny, conspiracy and scheme to defraud charges at their arraignments Thursday in a Long Island courtroom.