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The Nonprofit Angle to the Margaret B. Jones Fraud Story

by Tom Durso on March 6th, 2008

Carolyn Kellogg, who writes at the Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy, noted yesterday that the gang-truce nonprofit cited by fraudulent memoirist Margaret B. Jones (née Seltzer) as her means of remaining linked to the ‘hood where she didn’t grow up may — brace yourself – not exist:

… [W]ho talks to the little kids? The author lives in Oregon. The homies live on death row. What “we” goes into the community? Where is the International Brother/SisterHood office? Is there a phone number? Where do those college aspirants go, exactly, for that $25?The International Brother/SisterHood website was live at brothersisterhood.com until late last night or early this morning but has since been taken down. I took a few screenshots … , and there was, I’m afraid, none of the typical information provided by nonprofits.

And a sad story gets just a little bit sadder … | 501(c) 

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