A New York veterans' charity created to offer outdoor retreats for injured service members became a personal source of money for its leaders, state prosecutors allege in a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit filed by the Office of the New York Attorney General claims that Healing for Heroes, A Disabled Veteran's Retreat and Wooded Oasis, Inc., misled local community groups, businesses, and donors. According to the lawsuit, the charity used their donations to pay for personal luxuries and improvements for its founders instead of helping former service members. According to legal filings submitted by the Office of the New York Attorney General, the charity raised nearly $100,000 in donations after launching in 2024. Investigators say almost half of that money went toward personal shopping trips, restaurant meals, vehicle repairs, fuel, and improvements to property owned by the charity's leaders. State officials are asking the court to shut down the organisation, ban its founders from running non-profits in New York, and order them to return the misused money and pay civil penalties.
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