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How about these 'cherrys'?

Richard Walden, of the humanitarian group Operation USA, in the Los Angeles Times

..,"The worst scandal came after the September 11 attacks, when it was revealed that a large portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars donated to the organization went not to survivors or family members of those killed, but to other Red Cross operations, in what was described by chapters across the country as a "bait-and-switch" operation."

Red Cross relief efforts after Katrina,..
"Its fundraising vastly outruns its programs because it does very little or nothing to rescue survivors, provide direct medical care or rebuild houses."


Eileen Therese Saxon of the Asheville, North Carolina Red Cross chapter charged with embezzling $165,000 – 9% of its $1.25 million dollar annual budget. (Source Ashville Citizen Times)


Karen Shuerger, former assistant director of accounting at the Orange County, California Chapter of the Red Cross has been sentenced to six months in Federal prison, ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $110,000 and when she is released, she will also serve 3 years of supervised release and six months of home detention. (Source: NY Times)


Red Cross Director Jonathon A. Jarrell of Virginia indicted on one count of embezzlement. Jarrell allegedly embezzled about $16,452 from the chapter between November 2004 and July 2006.


Joseph Lecowitch, CEO of the Hudson County Chapter in New Jersey, and his bookkeeper Catalina Escoto. Escoto gave herself $75,000 in bonuses. According to prosecutors, these two stole well over $1 million Red Cross donor dollars squandering it on gambling and each other. (Source: NY Times).

Pls. source what auditors are in Haiti ?
The same group of government appointees that watched the financial insitutions meltdown without a hic-cup*? Are poor choices for auditors.
Note; ARC American Red Cross has gone thru six presidents in the last nine years, several of whom were forced out. One was fired for having an inappropriate “sexual relationship with a subordinate.”
Since 2008' ARC has laid off one-third of its employees, ARC has faced a $210 million deficit. It received $100 million in emergency funds from Congress and has since been able to reduce that gap to about $35.5 million. With a proven tangible history of mismanagement and fiscal abuse somebody should pull the plug on this organization.