Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 96, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 December 1981 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 31,1981

Innis to 'contribute' $35,000 to CORE to settle funds charges

c. 1981 N.Y. Times NEW YORK The Congress of Racial Equality has reached agreement with the New York state attorney general's office to settle charges that the organization misused nearly $500,000 in charitable contributions. Officials on both sides said the agreement was expected to be signed next week, ending a three-year investigation of the

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civil-rights organization that had seriously limited its ability to raise funds and conduct its affairs. The agreement, according to officials familiar with it on both sides, does not require CORE to admit any wrongdoing in its handling of funds. But it stipulates that its national director, Roy Innis, will contribute $35,000 to the organization over the next three

years. It also gives specific guidelines for the management of the group’s finances and its solicitation of funds. Representatives of both the attorney general’s office and CORE said that to avoid jeopardizing the agreement in court they would have no official comment on it until after it was signed. But they confirmed these details:

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—Tighter controls will be imposed on expenditures, including payment of expense accounts, the issuing of petty cash and the writing of corporate checks. A formal budget will have to be adopted each year, and specific procedures followed in the event it is exceeded. —The 11-member board of directors will be expanded to between 13 and 21 people, three-

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quarters of whom will have to be independent of the officers of the organization. —Telephone solicitors will be regularly supervised and will use a written text in their solicitations. The attorney general’s office will be empowered to monitor fundraising and solicitation activities. An aide to Attorney General Robert Abrams said the

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agreement, which was negotiated over the last several months with the participation of Justice Shanley N. Egeth of Civil Court, “relates directly to the allegations made in the lawsuit.” He said some details were still under negotiation and might change before the agreement was signed next week. The suit, which was filed by Attorney General Louis J.

Lefkowitz three days before he left office in 1978, charged the organization with misusing nearly half a million dollars in funds and with misrepresenting itself in soliciting contributions. It said money intended for the organization’s activities had been used for other purposes, including travel by its officers to Africa and Europe. The official said Innis’s contribution to the organization

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would be covered by a sls,oQl>ayear increase in his salaiy, which is presently $20,000. The official said the increase, which will be retroactive to 1977, was necessary because Innis had been “terribly underpaid” cotppared to other civil rights leaders. The official also said the agreement did not indicate wrongdoing by Innis or by CORE.