Charity means “pay me” in Dallas

Mark McKenna
January 18, 2011
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Donations paid for this meal.

A new report by the Dallas Morning News paper has painted a picture of some questionable practices of some charities of some big named stars associated with Dallas professional sports teams.

 

The paper outlines how retired Dallas Cowboys star quarterback turned broadcaster, Troy Aikman raised $1.8 million for his Troy Aikman Foundation, but spent less than $70,000 on things of a charitable nature. The report also describes how Cowboys defensive end Marcus Spears still takes online credit-card donations even though the State of Texas revoked his nonprofits charter two years ago and how NBA player Terence Newman used charitable donations to pay his homeboys salary.

It’s all very unsettling stuff. But it makes you wonder just how easy it is for these guys to get non-profit charter rights. Shit. If it were that easy for me, I would have a “Good Times” charity that would go solely towards ensuring that the good times keep coming. Which means, the donations would go towards gambling, drinking and carrying on for myself and the whole office crew every weekend. There’d be trips to Vegas, trips to Macau, trips to Singapore and just about every major Casino resort you can think of.

Of course, I’m not a villain, a small charitable donation would go towards those lost too much money gambling or spent too much money on bottle service and hookers while we were partying our asses off. After all, this is my charity. Hey it could be worse, it’s not as if I’m facilitating money laundering like the BCLC.

Donations anyone? It’s for a good cause! And some pizza after the bar. Anyone?

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