Byline: Lisa Anderson; 1998-03-15; The Chicago Tribune;
Tags: exposing fraud, Miracle merchants
Article Links". . .When Chicago Tribune reporter Lisa Anderson discovered that Korotoumou Kone, the child she was sponsoring in Mali, had been dead nearly two years, Save the Children Federation Inc. said the error was unprecedented.But after the Tribune learned that a Bellingham, Wash., family had sponsored a dead child for nearly four years before being notified of his death, SCF began an investigation of its Malian operations. That inquiry, completed last fall, found that at least 24 sponsors had sent the charity money on behalf of dead children in Mali for varying periods of time. . ."
Description:The Tribune researched more about the sponsors who had been sending money for dead children.
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