AG Keith Ellison Reaches Settlement With Fraudulent Veterans’ Charity

CBS Minnesota

January 12, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has banned a veterans’ charity from seeking donations in the state.

The former directors of the Florida-based nonprofit Healing Heroes Network, Inc. — Allan Spiegel, Neal Spiegel and Stacey Spiegel — are being required to pay $95,000 to the state as part of a settlement filed Tuesday. The Spiegels are also barred for five years from running any charities are soliciting charitable contributions.

Ellison’s office says Healing Heroes Network solicited about $56,000 from Minnesotans between 2015 and 2017, and despite claiming that 100% of their proceeds went to wounded veterans, very little actually did.

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