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Question: how can the prosecutor only recommend three years?

Friday, Sep. 03, 2010
Ex-GOP Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzling
By AP

(WASHINGTON) — A former National Republican Congressional Committee treasurer has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $840,000 from several political committees, including more than $670,000 from the congressional committee.

Christopher J. Ward of Bethesda, Md., who has been under investigation for some time, entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Washington.

Ward was treasurer of the NRCC from 2003 to 2007. He admitted in court papers that he transferred money into his personal account from an account used to operate an annual Fundraising Dinner with then-President George W. Bush.

Prosecutors and Ward’s lawyer have agreed to recommend a sentence of three years in prison, though the judge can impose a term of up to 10 years.

Another white collar criminal will wind up getting out in a year…just do not understand the double standards out there…

Answer: It has nothing to do w “a long and expensive trial”

He has $ & political pull, therefore he walks.

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Question: do you know of any excellent proven Fundraising Ideas for socer teams?

we need to raise $1,500 to go to several tournaments this season. I’ve never fundraised before and we have no money to put up-front to buy Fundraising Products. Any suggestions out there? Thank you!

Answer: Over the years I’ve been involved in several fundraisers for sports teams. Here are some of the things we’ve tried that worked very well.

Homemade Pizza Sales (kids made the pizza’s) Ask local grocer for discounts on supplies.

Celebrity Auction, Even in a community of 5,000 people this was pretty easy. We wrote to many celebrities, (country music stars were great) and explained why we were raising money, ask them for a donation for the Auction. We received, t-shirts, books, and many many autographed photographs (let the buyer have the envelopes too). Advertise and have an auction. You can add to this by asking local community businesses to donate too.

Cow Plop and carnival, We had a small carnival with game booths and food (homemade funnel cakes, cotten candy etc) Buy supplies you cannot get donated from oritental trading, The cow plop is this: We marked a huge grid in a parking lot, Sold raffel tickets for each spot . Local farmers brought in cows, the first spot the cow poops in is the raffel winner! OK, it’s a little weird but it worked where a farming community was close.

There are always the tried and true methods you can get a fundraising organization (look on the internet for one in your area)
who do candy sales, magazine sales, cookbooks, t-shirts, bakesales, etc.

Here is my best advise for whatever you choose, get everything donated. Then later make sure to have a Big Thank you in the local paper or something like that. It’s good for businesses because they get free advertisement too. Get the parents involved, they may donate a lot of your items you need, or they may be able to donate time. Be specific about your needs when sending them a letter you will be surprised what resources you already have. Get the fans of the team involved, Many will be kids but they will be great at donating there time to something fun.

Fundraising is a big job and isn’t easy. Put someone who can delegate well, and is a good leader, to head up the job. They need to get lots of people involved to do small tasks.

Thats what I can think of off the top of my head! Hope it helps.

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