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Nonprofit Formed to Help Veterans Wasted Large Sum, Senate Report Says

 

Published 12/11/2008 by Ann Scott Tyson at Wash Post In Congress

A nonprofit veterans group has "squandered" hundreds of thousands of dollars of the $17 million in federal funds it has received since 2001 and essentially abandoned its mission of helping veterans start small businesses, according to the results of a Senate investigation to be released today. (link)

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