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I'm a wounded warrior. Donate to my broke ass. I promise 110% transparency. Your donations will go to my highly expensive pain medication, cuz booze and weed ain't cheap.
 
Daglord

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a CBS investigative report:

Wounded Warrior Project accused of wasting donation money
"Let's get a Mexican mariachi band in there, let's get maracas made with [the] WWP logo, put them on every staff member's desk. Let's get it catered and have a big old party," he described.

"Going to a nice fancy restaurant is not team building. Staying at a lavish hotel at the beach here in Jacksonville, and requiring staff that lives in the area to stay at the hotel is not team building," Millette continued.

CBS News spoke to more than 40 former employees who described a charity where spending was out of control.

"It was extremely extravagant. Dinners and alcohol, and just total accessm" one employee explained. He continued, saying that for a charitable organization that's serving veterans, the spending on resorts and alcohol is "what the military calls fraud waste and abuse.

According to the charity's tax forms, spending on conferences and meetings went from $1.7 million in 2010, to $26 million in 2014. That's about the same amount the group spends on combat stress recovery -- its top program.

Former employees say spending has skyrocketed since Steven Nardizzi took over as CEO in 2009. Many point to the 2014 annual meeting at a luxury resort in Colorado Springs as typical of his style.
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"He rappelled down the side of a building at one of the all hands events. He's come in on a Segway, he's come in on a horse."

About 500 staff members attended the four-day conference in Colorado. The price tag? About $3 million.

"Donors don't want you to have a $2,500 bar tab. Donors don't want you to fly every staff member once a year to some five-star resort and whoop it up and call it team building," said Millette.
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Alienator said:
I'm a wounded warrior. Donate to my broke ass. I promise 110% transparency. Your donations will go to my highly expensive pain medication, cuz booze and weed ain't cheap.
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much rather you get it than Nardizzi.

 
mysticmac

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These guys are assholes for taking money from people who thought it would be used to help veterans and instead spending it on themselves, but at the same time, I wish my company would hook us up like that when we travel for work. Instead, it is usually some three star hotel in a boring area, an economy rental car, and a meager per diem.
 
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