by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
Investigative journalist Sue Pascoe of Circling The News dropped a bombshell: $100 million raised during the celebrity-packed FireAid benefit concert may have disappeared. The money was initially intended to support homeless residents of Pacific Palisades after a devastating wildfire destroyed thousands of homes. Instead, Pascoe reports the funds were funneled through a complex web of NGOs – potentially diverted toward unrelated causes.
“So I looked at the initially they gave $50 million to about 120 nonprofits. And I looked at these nonprofits and one of them said, we help mobile home parks. And there are two mobile home parks in the Palisades. And so I contacted the people there. They had never received any money. They had never heard of that,” Pascoe told Fox 11 Los Angeles during the interview.
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Public records indicate that FireAid appears to be a pop-up NGO, created solely to assist the thousands of Pacific Palisades residents left homeless after the wildfire destroyed their community.
“Donate directly to FireAid today to help us start rebuilding our community,” Fire Aid states on its website, adding that the funds will be “immediate relief” channeled through “more than 120 nonprofit organizations, reaching over 150,000 Angelenos.”
Yet according to Pascoe,…
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