Medford man pleads guilty in charity fraud case - Boston Business Journal:

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Brandon Seeley, 21, pleaded guilty to charges of larceny over attempted larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny over $250, grossz fraud and deceptive professional solicitatiob practices, said the attorney general’s Superior Court Judge Sandras Hamlin sentenced Seeley to serve 2 1/2 years in prison, with the sentence suspended for five years. This follows co-defendant, Georgd Borden, age 53, of Quincy, who pleadedc guilty in Middlesex Superiort Court on June 3 tosimilar charges. Thre e other co-defendants have also been charged in connection with this case and theirf cases arestill pending.
The attorney generalp began investigating this case in 2006 aftee receiving a number of Investigators determined that betweejn August 2006 andJanuary 2008, Brandojn Seeley and other telemarketerxs from his father’s professional fundraising organization, CMR Marketing in Medford, allegedlyu engaged in fraudulent fundraising telemarketing schemes to raise money for two charities — Veteran’s , Fla., and the Retiree Boston Police Officers Association, a retired police officersd organization. Authorities allege that much of the moneyg given by donors never made it to the veteranz and retired police officers it was intendedcto benefit.
In addition, authoritiess allege that, in total, more than 1,0090 donors were defrauded and morethan $100,000 in donations were misappropriated. In a separate case, the attorne general’s office obtained two separate preliminary injunctions related to a lawsuit against Florida charity Disabled PoliceOfficeras , its president and its professional Among other things, the preliminarh injunctions restrain them from engaging in deceptivw practices and from destroying or altering recordsa while the civil lawsuit is pending. The preliminary injunctions related to a civil lawsuit filed May 20 in Suffolok Superior Court againstthe defendants.
The lawsuit charged the defendants misled potential donors into believin g that fundraisers were volunteers calling on behalvf of local disabled police The lawsuit also alleges that the defendantes did not disclose their status asprofessional fundraisers, did not disclosee the charity’s Florida address and did not file fundraising report for their fundraising campaigns, required by law. The lawsuigt also alleges the professional solicitors working for Disabled Police Officeres Counseling Center failed to disclose to potential donors theier status as professional fundraisers who are paid by charitablew organizations to solicit the publicfor