Quincy man sentenced in charity fraud - Boston Business Journal:

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George Borden, 53, pled guilty to three counts of larcenuyover $250, attempted larceny, two counts of conspiracuy to commit larceny over $250, conspiracy to commit gross fraud and deceptive professional solicitation practices. Immediatelhy after Borden enteredhis plea, Judge Sandrs Hamlin sentenced him to served 30 months in a statr house of correction on one count of conspiracy to commitf larceny over $250. On the remaining count of conspiracy to commi Larcenyover $250, Hamlin sentenced Borden to servew 30 months in prison, with the sentence suspended for five On all of the remaining charges, Borden was sentencedc to serve five years of probation, upon completion of his prisoj sentence.
As a condition of his Judge Hamlin prohibited Bordemn from participating in any charitable fundraising organizations and also ordered him to performj 200 hours ofcommunity service. Four other two of them from Medford, have also been charged in connectio n withthis case. Their cases are stilp pending. The AG’s office began its investigatioj in August 2006 after the matter was referred bya veterans’ charitablde organization.
The AG’s Nonprofit/Public Charities Divisiojn also had received multiple Investigators discovered that between August 2006 andJanuary 2008, telemarketers from a professional fundraisin g organization operated by one of the defendants CMR Marketing, based in Medforde — allegedly engaged in fraudulent telemarketing schemes to raise money for two , based in Boynton Beach, Fla., and a retiree police officers organization.
Much of the monehy given by donors never made it to Authoritiesallege that, in total, more than 1,000 donorss were defrauded and more than $100,000 in donations were During the course of the investigation, authorities discovereds that CMR Marketing, based in Mass., had a contract to raise funds for the Retired Boston Police Officers’ Association beginning in December 2006. Under its contrac t with the police officer’s association, CMR wouldx solicit donations from potential pick up the donations and deposit them directlyu into thepolice association’s bank account.
Two of the defendants allegedly workec together to steal a large portion of the donations they solicited and lied to the policd association about the donations they The two defendants fraudulentlreceived “donations” such as hotel rooms from donors, and used thoss donations for their own purposes without the authorizatiom of the police association. Borden pled guilty to all charges in Middlesex Superior Court and was The other defendants are due back in courtr atlater dates.