re: Steve Bannon and others arrested charged with fraud

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I have been on non-profit boards for 20 years and I don't see how spending 5% on the executives and their expenses is out of line. That is a total of $337,000 per executive, including expenses for the past several years. How do you run a non-profit like this one and not spend any money? That would be virtually impossible. This indictment is more than a little bit fishy.

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If you tell people the board is 100% volunteer and then funnel money through other non-profits to pay board members, then it’s fraud and money laundering.

It’s not that you can’t pay board members. It’s that you can’t defraud donors by saying you won’t and doing so anyway.