Comments on: Canadian Salvation Army Defraud revealed

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:00:13 +0000

I Can’t believe that you are thinking S. Archer that its not our donation dollars that he stole. our money is used for upkeeping and repairs of property.I know this for a fact since I am an employee of the same company we are talking about.
He should get jailed for what he has done.

By: s.archer

s.archer — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:44:52 +0000

Iris- If he did this through property than it does not affect donation money.It’s a well unded organization when it comes to internal activities.

If he had a “guilt trip” then came forward you’d think the Sally Ann would try to work with him.

Apparently there was the deal until they found out it was one of their own.

Thing is that they brought this guy Mitchell in after a fraud in 99-2000 was uncovered and still miss this and to top it; the PR rep who released the memo on Mr. Wa used to be the cheif accountant for the Salvation Army.

They have more secrets that they care to share.

By: Iris

Iris — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:04:18 +0000

I Have not heard anything in the media about the court case.
I hope they trow the book at Ming Wa.
we have all given money to the poor not knowing that it was going to him and his live in girl friend who has been together for 5 years i have heard nothing mentioned about her. I lived a few houses from them I can’t believe the girl fried can just walk clear i saw how they were both living like money was no object.
SAD very Sad…

By: s.archer

s.archer — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:54:23 +0000

Did anyone here of how the Court appearance went?

I personally beleive the Salvation Army needs a serious audit by the CCRA.

On the CFTO story, the finance secratary stamped and siged the approval on all of the invoices. Wouldn’t someone question $100,000 on on invoice for architect work that was never done?

If Mr. Wa had not come forward I doubt that they ever would have caught on. And personally I don’t buy the guilty concious story.

By: Bene D

Bene D — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:20:28 +0000

I agree it happens a great deal. And I agree that whistleblowers are courageous and need support. I am sorry you lost your job because of the lack of ethics from others.

By: Whistleblower

Whistleblower — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 05:06:27 +0000

Good Luck on that thinking, it happens more that people think. I worked for a non-profit agency that stole money from the poor on a regular basis. I lost my job because of it because I was so vocal about the abusive spending of tax dollars that were meant for the poor but ended up in the executive directors pockets. Rock on whitleblowers, and hopefully this government will give us the protection we need to bring these greedy bastard to their greedy little knees.

By: bob Smietana

bob Smietana — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:02:18 +0000

The scary (and hopeful) part of a story like this is how easy it is to commit this kind of fraud, and how rare it is. Charities–most of whom run lean offices to reduce overhead and put the majority of their funds into services–often don’t have the checks and balances that for profits businesses do. They rely on the goodwill of their employees, who rarely let them down. If someone decides to go bad, they can steal a lot of money fairly easily