Operation Donate With Honor

My dad had a good name for people like this: goniff. For the non Yiddish speakers among you, dear readers, goniff means a thief.  Lowest of the low.  It's an accurate term for the fraudsters targeted in the last joint FTC-state AG enforcement sweep, Operation Donate With Honor: con artists who solicited donations for veterans' charities and then pocketed the money.  The defendants targeted in the 100+ plus actions conducted a variety of activities, including claiming to be collecting money for homeless and disabled vets and then keeping the money or spending almost all of it on their own salaries.  The defendants used all means at their disposal: door-to-door solicitations, direct mail, robocalls, etc. The details are hair raising and can be read on the FTC press release linked below and on the FTC blog.