CNN reports on Terri Crisp and questions her credibility – Katrina

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/14/us/animal-charity-investigation/index.html

(CNN) — A charity that raised close to $27 million to help animals worldwide spent nearly all of that money on fund-raising expenses paid to a direct-mail company.

In addition, CNN found that the charity, SPCA International, misrepresented one of its programs called “Baghdad Pups” on its tax filings and hired an officer for that program with a questionable background.

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Crisp once headed a California-based animal rescue charity, Noah’s Wish, that reached a settlement agreement in 2007 with the state of California. The California attorney general investigated whether contributions for “rescuing and caring for the animal victims of Hurricane Katrina” were used for that purpose.

In that settlement agreement from the summer of 2007, Crisp agreed not to “serve as an officer, director or trustee or in any position having the duties or responsibilities of an officer, director or trustee, with any non-profit organization for a period of five (5) years from the date of the execution of this Settlement Agreement.”

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http://www.bestfriends.org/nomorehomelesspets/weeklyforum/biotcrisp.cfm