Sean Hannity - The Con Man

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It looks like right-wing mouth piece Sean Hannity’s patriotic chants have made him more millions than anyone previously thought and that the way he made some of that money may be in direct conflict with the values he pushes on his TV program. Can this be true? Is Conservatism’s golden boy a big time con man bilking his fans?

Well Hannity created a charity called Freedom Alliance. This organization was described by Hannity, as a charity set up to help US soldiers injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and to help pay for college for their children. To raise money the Hannity and his charity held "Freedom concerts" where the performers  played free of charge  Hannity  also sent out thousands of letters asking for donations, and in those letters he made the promise  that 100% of the money raised would be used to help the soldiers and their children.

Here is the problem….. For a charity to be valid, at least 75% of the money raised must go toward helping the charity recipients, and eventhough  Hannity's right-wing fans donated  millions of dollars into the charity via the concerts and the donations, very little of the money was getting to the military victims of the wars and their children.

Most of the donated money was spent on staff, advisors, form letters, postage, etc.  Well over $200,000 of the money raised at each concert was spent to fly con-man Hannity, his family and friends to the charity concerts, rent limousines to ferry them around, and rooms at expensive hotels for them to stay in. Here are the figures for donations and money given to intended recipients according to the charity's tax forms:

2006
$10,822,785 in donations received
3.68% went to intended recipients

2007
$12,459,317 in donations received
7.19% went to intended recipients

2008
$8,781,431 in donations received
12.07% went to intended recipients

To most people this is just a CON MAN running a SCAM on the back of wounded soldiers and their children. But not to worry conservative idiots …..Hannity will have a perfectly good spin for you all that will explain how is the democrat, Obama, and liberals who are to blame….and this will ease your fears and bring you back to your comfort level of hate.

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