The Nonprofit Angle to the Margaret B. Jones Fraud Story

Carolyn Kellogg, who writes at the Los Angeles Times blog Jacket Copy, noted yesterday that the gang-truce nonprofit cited by fraudulent memoirist Margaret B. Jones (née Seltzer) as her means of remaining linked to the ‘hood where she didn’t grow up may — brace yourself – not exist:

… [W]ho talks to the little kids? The author lives in Oregon. The homies live on death row. What “we” goes into the community? Where is the International Brother/SisterHood office? Is there a phone number? Where do those college aspirants go, exactly, for that $25?The International Brother/SisterHood website was live at brothersisterhood.com until late last night or early this morning but has since been taken down. I took a few screenshots … , and there was, I’m afraid, none of the typical information provided by nonprofits.

And a sad story gets just a little bit sadder … | 501(c)