How Could I Have Missed This?

After three years of reviewing the pseudo-sanctuary's 990 (tax returns), you would have thought I would have caught a very big problem listed on the 2006 and 2007 990 before this week:

2005 (Before the OAG reviewed the pseudo-sanctuary's financial accounts)

Gross receipts: $1,420,278

Total expenses: $1,362,208

Difference: +$17,026
2006

Gross receipts: $1,743,394
Total expenses: $1,791,157
Difference: -$52,093

2007

Gross receipts: $1,179,253
Total expenses: $1,475,882
Difference: -$310,920

Vet Care and Feed for over 500 hundred animals: 2006

Vet Care: $24,388
Feed: $58,200
Animal Care: $8,409

Total: $90,997

2006

Vet Care: $9,845
Feed: $96,274
Animal Care: $7,709

Total: $113,828

In comparison to the previous year, vet care declined significantly in 2007 by $14,543. Oh, and this just happens to be the year the directors gave themselves a +55% salary increase!

This is a horrible development because the pseudo-sanctuary is essentially living day to day, delaying payment of bills (no doubt accumulating late fees), and cutting animal care services, all because the directors have absolutely no clue as to how to operate within a budget.

Some of the pricey expenditures for 2007 include:
$5,018 - Employee Meeting (More beer parties?)

$9,355 - Cell Phones (Who is using the cell phones and are personal calls charged to the animals?)

$3,922 - IFAW Investigation (Doesn't IFAW have its own investigators and why is the pseudo-sanctuary spending the animals' money for another non-profit charity that takes in millions more than the pseudo-sanctuary????)

$11,383 - Rental Property (Why are the animals paying for one of the director's personal housing? See past posting dealing with the rental property subject to include the director's eventual eviction from the rental property)

$5,171 - Tools (Every year the pseudo sanctuary has to buy thousands of dollars of new tools. Sticky fingers??)

Some of the pricey expenditures for 2006 include:

$3,041 - Air Fare (To where?? You are under investigation--you should be on-site taking care of business instead of going to Las Vegas and New Orleans!)

$5,293 - Entertainment (Good grief! I can only imagine the type of "entertainment" that was purchased using the animals' funds)

$20,287 - Hotels (Wow!! This animals paid how much for hotels in 2006???)

$4,490 - Hotel Meetings (You have got to be kidding--more beer parties??)

$1,567 - Cabs/Tolls (Where in the world did the director go that required cabs and tolls?)

$5,687 - Office Contract Labor (Was this one of the directors' kid's salary?)

$12,640 - Rental Property (Animals paying the director's personal living expense -- nice)

$5,260 - Employee Meeting (Why does it cost so much to hold employee meetings on-site?)

$22,159 - Cell and Office Phone (Are you kidding me??? Hello? Who are you calling? Carol's relatives living in Europe?)

$5,053 – Tools (More tool replacement)

This is very disturbing news to say the least--especially since so many animals died from 2006-2008.