Tax, Legal & Compliance

In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the leader of various sham cancer nonprofits has agreed to shut down his organizations in what the agency has called the largest joint enforcement action against charity fraud...

Andrew Caspersen, a senior private equity executive with PJT Partners, has been arrested and charged with attempting to defraud investors out of around $95 million. In addition to the criminal charges filed by Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Caspersen is the subject of a parallel civil complaint filed…

A Washington, D.C., advocacy group has asked the IRS to investigate whether the Trump Foundation violated nonprofit regulations by contributing to a political organization associated with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi...

Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) has received a lot of attention about its spending, which has caused some donors to abandon their support of the charity and its board to fire its CEO and chief operating officer, even after the board defended its past expenditures that some deemed excessive. Now, U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who serves as chairman for the Senate Judiciary Committee, has asked Anthony Odierno, WWP's board chair and interim CEO, to provide spending data not available in tax filings...

Charity Defense Council, the nonprofit-advocacy organization founded by Dan Pallotta, on Thursday issued an 11-page media advisory detailing the preliminary findings of its investigation into the allegations CBS News and The New York Times made against Wounded Warrior Project. The organization found "major errors" in the two news outlets' reporting, including "significant factual errors" and "the possibility of material bias."...

A South Dakota couple who died in a murder-suicide last year stole hundreds of thousands of dollars intended to be used to help improve Native Americans' college readiness, among other things, state Attorney General Marty Jackley said Wednesday. Investigators believe the total amount that Scott and Nicole Westerhuis stole exceeded $1 million, based on a…

Providing quality services. Raising funds. Promoting public awareness. Regardless of your nonprofit’s core mission, tasks like these are never far from your ever-growing list of things to do. But there’s one more thing you need to add to your list if you haven’t already, and that’s obtaining federal trademark registration for your name...

On Thursday, Wounded Warrior Project announced that it had fired two top executives and established an office of the CEO, led by board chairman Anthony Odierno, to head up the search for a new leader. Within a day, a familiar face had volunteered. John A. Melia, who founded Wounded Warrior Project in 2003 and led the organization until his departure in 2009, on Friday told The Associated Press that he had requested an "immediate" meeting with the organization's board of directors. And he has a 10-point plan to fix the organization...

In response to mounting criticism and a potential exodus of major donors after independent investigations by CBS News and The New York Times questioned its spending habits, Wounded Warrior Project last night announced that it has fired CEO Steve Nardizzi and chief operating officer Al Giordano...

If elected president, Hillary Clinton has promised to make many deductions less valuable for the well-to-do, but she would sidestep impacting their gifts to charity. Clinton has some aggressive tax plans, albeit not as aggressive as those of her fellow Democrat, Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton would ask the wealthiest to pay more. She would be most aggressive…