An article in my local newspaper discovered that Organ Donation, a registered national organ donation charity, is only contributing fewer than 10% of its received donations to charitable causes. What happens to the other 90% of money, you ask? Lining the pockets of a marketing business, Xentel Incorporated, and a few individuals. Is that legal? Apparently, yes.
What this particular charity is doing is totally despicable. Organ Donation is taking credit for other charities' work, deceiving its donors about what they are doing and pitching to the emotional sense of well-intended donors. Here are a few examples from the article of what Organ Donation is doing:
1. Taking credit and reporting for entire multi-million projects when they only contributed a tiny and trivial portion of the effort. For example, paying for the shipping of another charity's million dollar goods, then associating their name prominently with the project to mislead people.
2. Freely advertise and report works that have nothing to do with them. Organ Donation is saying the money donated to them will help fund organ replacement. That's not true; the government health care system pays the whole bill. And they aren't helping indirectly either. Organ Donation is not contributing to any kind of research.
3. Not contributing to what people perceive they would do, which is organ donation. Of that puny 10% of money going to some kind of cause, none is directed towards organ donation in any way. They are using money to pay for small expenses of other charities' projects just so they can attach their name.
4. Outright false advertisement. While not doing anything useful, they pay an exorbitant amount of money to Xentel, their marketing partner, to contact people and coerce them with their lies. A Xentel telemarketer will say that if everyone gave $50, it would "help end the pain for those waiting for a transplant and their families as well.”
5. Conflict of interest. The founder of Organ Donation is Gabriel Etele. He refers to himself as “Dr.” because he earned a PhD in communications from an online school called Honolulu University. A director of Xentel, Craig Copland, helped fund Organ Donation. Copland's daughter is a board of directors member at Organ Donation. Aside from insiders, there is no medical professional on Organ Donation's board either.
Xentel themselves are not exactly clean either. They are known for their "aggresive" marketing tactics by U.S. agencies. The article gave this example: "Xentel Inc. was fined $100,000 last year and is banned from calling any South Carolinians on behalf of both a police and a firefighter charity after state regulators alleged misrepresentation of how donations would be spent."
How people like Etele can walk freely and companies like Xentel can keep operating are simply beyond my comprehension. However, what really bothers me is that it took a journalist to uncover this. Just how many other such “charities” are out there?
Thu, 2007-11-29 03:12
I agree Maria
Mr Thornton,
what is Xentel !!!??? This has absolutely nothing to do with your taped telephone conversation (or does it?) :))
I'm happy to see your real face .
a taped telephone conversation where you were attempts to extort money from a company is big criminal act . if you are not at the jail you would be stealing money at some other companies right now... !
You can take the challenge on the bus, get free fuel from Clif Bar, listen to live music and more likely jump out of cliff but not do this Mr President Thornton ...
should put him behind the bars .
Wed, 2007-11-28 14:42
Wow!!!
David Thornton has been talking to Canadian Diamond Trader's Director and trying to extort him!!!
Read the full story, and listen to the phone recordings by clicking my name or the following link:
http://www.cdtforever.com/eclipse/rep/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&rep=CD...
Sun, 2007-11-25 17:19
David Thornton's hands are not clean either! Listen to a taped telephone conversation where he attempts to extort money from a company he has been bad-mouthing.
http://www.cdtforever.com/eclipse/rep/client/index.cfm?mode=entry&rep=CD...
And then he emails the same company to re-iterate his request for $200,000 in exchange for no longer defaming the company!
Excerpts from the email sent to CDT from David……
"As I explained, I have myself, been searching for a legal business opportunity, as I certainly need the money and I am an excellent salesperson and promoter. I am also a stanch critic of the illegal money-laundering racketeering fraud particularly as it is exploding exponentially on the Internet.
I will admit in my statement of defense that I have indeed defamed you and CDT
You will be required to say nothing since you claim will be uncontested.
But, blinded by arrogance and over exuberance after being instrumental in closing down the notorious TTI & BIM operations, I mistakenly turned my vengeance toward Canadian Diamond Traders International.
For this promotion of CDT I requested, on my defeat in court, a modest initial donation to my organization, CrimeBustersNow of $200,000 to help fight our mutually agreed enemies; illegal pyramid Ponzi schemes and fraudulent “Biz – Ops”
That was, and is my offer. Without that; the war of words continue; damage to you name and company will obviously result, and as mentioned, civil action a certainty.
Do bear in mind that either way you will be forced to take legal action unless you are prepared to suffer the next round of strategic attacks which I can promise will not only drastically harm your operation but distract you from your business, causing many individulas to inundate your company with complaints
The choice is yours Jay
David J. Thornton"
MAKES YOU THINK, DOESN'T IT?
Tue, 2007-08-21 00:38
Xentel should have been closed down years ago and the owners and top executives jailed for outright fraud. My name is David Thornton president of an 18 month old non-profit world-wide organization fighting against pyramid frauds, counterfeit goods and telemarketing frauds, the likes of Xentel. CrimeBustersNow was formed by a few seniors fed up with watching fellow seniors, the financially unsophisticated, the trusting and civic minded, students in universities, colleges, and even high schools being scammed by unconscionable fraud artists. And fed up with watching law enforcement and government agencies turning a blind eye to this money laundering white-collar racketeering and fed up with our own complaints over many years simply ignored by police and the Government in Canada.
I worked for Great West Entertainment telemarketing selling sponsorships for handicapped children to see variety shows. We called on behalf of the local firefighters, Community Living, Kinsmen etc. I discovered that 40,000 tickets had been sold for a show that seated 3500. Those seats went primarily to the families who purchased tickets for themselves. The extra tickets they believed they purchased to sponsor handicapped children were never printed. GWE promise to bus thousands of handicapped children to the shows never materialized. It was all a big lie. There were no buses loaded with happy handicapped children. It was a fraud. I appeared on the national T.V. show “W5” with my face obscured exposing this company’s fraud. When it was discovered that this went as high as the United Way it nearly didn’t make it to “air.” We had some bitter exchanges before it was finally aired some months later.
GWE was exposed for the obvious fraud they were, but Canadian authorities including the Mayor of Mississauga did nothing to shut them down or jail the fraudsters. Instead they were allowed to change their name to …… maybe you guessed it…… Xentel. It was evident to me the reason they got away with it was because they were involved heavily with the police, fire departments, service clubs and politicians. At that time they were taking a 60/40 split in their favour. Today they take 90% or more and in many cases don’t even put on a variety show. I warned at that time that this company, their “spin offs” and others like it would someday destroy the whole charity “industry” but no one would heed the warning and stop this evil. That was 1985.
And the last two to three years you can find numerous posting about this company and other frauds that our organization and myself personally have been relentlessly pursuing on the Internet and videos of street demonstrations. Simply Google search 905-963-3389 our own site is www.crimebustersnow.com.
It was corruption and politics that allowed Xentel to become what it is today. Politicians, police and other “badge organizations” support these fraud artists. Xentel raises money for the likes of Big Brothers, Shrine Circus and believe it or not …. “Crime Stoppers” itself. Citizen may now understand why complaints to Crime Stoppers and Phone Busters about telemarketers seem to “disappear” into a “black hole.” Xentel and other telemarketing scammers such as Millennium Teleservices of Charleston West Virginia that raises money for the Ontario Police Association claiming it goes to send kids fishing with cops, and Christmas Parties etc. when in fact the telemarketers take 84.5% of your hard earned money for their pockets, while the Police Association grabs what they want for their “boys and girls club” and to push their agendas while precious little goes to children. It is reprehensible. It is also politically disgusting when, for example, the ridiculous Mayor of Oshawa Ontario cuts the ribbon welcoming Millennium Teleservices to his city considering out of $1 million scammed from his constituents, $845,000 in fact goes to the American telemarketing corporation in West Virginia. And another telemarketing company given a $1 million government grant to locate in Windsor Ontario and another $1 million grant for Sudbury Ontario and CrimeBustersNow is still investigating. Absolutely unbelievable!!! But there it is; all true and provable
"When is a Charity is Not a Charity???".... When it's a SCAM!!! and money laundering racketeering.
David John Thornton
President CrimeBustersNow
www.crimebustersnow.com
905-963-3389
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