Merry Christmas . . . Feel Free To Stiff The Homeless
In the past, the Post has done its most just in time for Christmas to make you feel less guilty for stiffing panhandlers. Here they are again, gleefully reporting State AG Andrew Cuomo’s crackdown on the United Homeless Organization plastic water jugs that are all over town, at tables where volunteers ask you to give up a penny for the homeless:
Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Filed under: New York Post, See, The Thing Is Was . . .State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed suit yesterday, charging the United Homeless Organization is a scam run by con artists who pocket most of the change they collect — hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
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UHO founder Stephen Riley and director Myra Walker take a big cut of the money to fund personal shopping sprees at the GameStop, Home Shopping Network, Bed Bath & Beyond and P.C. Richard, as well as their monthly cable bills, legal papers charge.
Riley, a beefy 60-year-old, shamelessly used the donated dollars — which are supposed to be used to “feed the homeless” — to pay his Weight Watchers bills.
