State of Minnesota Suing Fundraiser for Veterans' Charity

When the phone rang in November 2015, Danette Crenshaw of Glencoe, Minn., declined to donate $20 to an organization called the Foundation for American Veterans.

So she was confused when she got a call from the same group a few days later, claiming that she had pledged $20 and asking that she immediately pay over the phone.

Things became more perplexing when the pledge reminders started appearing in the mail. Meanwhile, she and her husband, Jan, a U.S. Army veteran, kept getting the calls.

Concerned by what he thought were high-pressure tactics and deceptive messaging, Jan did some research and didn’t like what he discovered.