Christopher Coen
Melissa Sogard
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The Wall Street Journal is preparing an investigation into how charitable donations collected were disbursed after the tragic shooting last year at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, NY, where an immigrant shot to death 13 other refugees and immigrants (here).
According to one family member the donations were dispersed to people who were not shot or injured and who did not lose any family members in the tragic shooting.
David Marsland’s wife, Hongxiu was among the victims.
He believes most of the money was donated with the understanding that it would assist the families of the 13 who died.
David Marsland says, “There was a lot of effort to try to obscure who the payments were to. But, the truth is that anyone who was in that building, even people who emerged unscathed, received a cash payment from out of the charitable donations. Even though they weren’t collected in their names. The sum total average among the family members was about $2600 a piece out of $170,000 that was left over after they paid for all of the things that they used the charitable donations to pay for.”
The American Civic Association in Binghamton is a USCRI affiliate.
