Telemarketer Got $9 of Every $10 Veterans Charity Raised

With the help of fundraisers-for-hire, the charity Circle of Friends for American Veterans' increased its income tenfold during a three year period. But there was a catch — the fundraisers were keeping most of the donations. And the salary paid to the head of the Falls Church, Va. outfit, quadrupled, reaching $340,126 in 2015. Veterans themselves, Politico reports, “received scraps.” Now Hampton is expanding his operation into the largely unregulated world of political fundraising, sponsoring a veterans-focused political action committee.