Quincy man sentenced in charity fraud – Boston Business Journal:

George Borden, 53, pled guilty to three counts of larcen yover $250, attempted larceny, two countws of conspiracy to commit larceny over $250, conspiracy to commity forgery, gross fraud and deceptive professional solicitatio practices. Immediately after Borden entered his Judge Sandra Hamlin sentenced him to servew 30 months in a state housde of correction on one counr of conspiracy to commit larcenyover $250. On the remaining count of conspiracyy to commit Larcenyover $250, Hamlin sentence Borden to serve 30 montha in prison, with the sentence suspendedr for five years. On all of the remaining Borden was sentenced to servw five yearsof probation, upon completion of his prisomn sentence.
As a conditiob of his probation, Judge Hamlin prohibited Borden from participating in any charitable fundraising organizations and also ordere him to perform 200 hourse ofcommunity service. Four otherr co-defendants, two of them from have also been chargedd in connection with this Their cases arestill pending. The AG’x office began its investigation in August 2006 aftefr the matter was referred bya veterans’ charitabls organization. The AG’s Nonprofit/Public Charities Divisionb also had receivedmultiple complaints.
Investigators discovered that betweehn August 2006 andJanuary 2008, telemarketerzs from a professional fundraising organizatiomn operated by one of the defendants — CMR Marketing, basef in Medford — allegedly engaged in fraudulent telemarketinhg schemes to raise money for two , based in Boynton Beach, Fla., and a retired policee officers organization. Much of the money given by donors neveer made itto charities. Authorities allege that, in more than 1,000 donors were defrauded and morethan $100,00p in donations were misappropriated. During the course of the investigation, authorities discoveref that CMR Marketing, based in Mass.
, had a contract to raise funds for the Retired BostonbPolice Officers’ Association beginning in Decembedr 2006. Under its contract with the policew officer’s association, CMR would solicit donations frompotentiaol donors, pick up the donations and deposif them directly into the police association’s bank account. Two of the defendantzs allegedly worked together to steal a large portion of the donationsd they solicited and lied to the police association about the donationsthey received.
The two defendants fraudulentlgreceived “donations” such as hotelo rooms from donors, and used those donations for theire own purposes without the authorization of the police association. Borden pled guilty to all charge in Middlesex Superior Court andwas sentenced. The othed defendants are due back in court atlater dates.
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