A, U.S. Navy Veterans Association Scam, Settlement

Telemarketing company to refund donations to Navy Veterans scam

The settlement says the telemarketers were unaware of Navy Veterans' bogus nature.

USN Veterans Assoc. Scam Artist the fake Bobby Thompsen

January 18, 2012 - Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday that the state has reached a settlement with a telemarketing company that solicited funds from Virginia residents for a fraudulent veterans charity that is under investigation in multiple states.

The settlement requires Michigan-based Associated Community Services Inc. to pay more than $65,000 in refunded contributions, civil penalties and other costs for alleged violations of Virginia law. The company was soliciting funds for the now defunct U.S. Navy Veterans Association, a fraudulent organization that purported to raise money to aid disabled veterans and send care packages to troops serving overseas.

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing by Associated Community Services. The company maintains that it was unaware of the association's fraudulent activities.

A state investigation last year concluded that the association collected at least $2 million from Virginia residents over a five-year period that ended in 2010. The case was turned over to Cuccinelli's office, which has civil enforcement authority under the state's charitable solicitation law.

Cuccinelli did not play a role in the civil case against the telemarketing firm because he accepted $55,500 in campaign contributions in 2009 from the director of the fraudulent charity. The man, who used the name Bobby Thompson, disappeared in 2010 shortly after questions emerged about the charity. Ohio authorities have charged him with identity fraud. read more>>>

This phony scam artist and grifter is still on the loose, they captured his girlfriend about a year or more ago, she's been tried, convicted and is now in prison but they're still looking for this scumbag and the millions he grifted!!