Court affirms $3 million restitution, ban of solicitor
An appellate court in New York has affirmed a trial court’s decisions ordering a professional solicitor to pay $3 million in restitution for fraudulently solicited contributions and permanently enjoining the soliciting company and its president from ever operating a business in New York that solicits contributions from the public. In 2013, the state Attorney General had sued the Coalition Against Breast Cancer, its officers and directors, its professional solicitor Campaign Center, Inc., and the Center’s founder and president Garrett Morgan. The AG claimed that the Coalition was a sham charity that had diverted nearly all of the millions of dollars that it raised to its officers, directors...
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