TROUBLE FOR FRIST’S CHARITY: Won’t Disclose Donors... Paid $500,000 In Consulting Fees To Inner Circle

TROUBLE FOR FRIST’S CHARITY: Won’t Disclose Donors... Paid $500,000 In Consulting Fees To Inner Circle... Contributed Bulk Of $$ To Evangelical Christian Groups With GOP Ties

Associated Press ONATHAN M. KATZ and JOHN SOLOMON December 17, 2005 at 01:49 PM
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WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's AIDS charity paid nearly a half-million dollars in consulting fees to members of his political inner circle, according to tax returns providing the first financial accounting of the presidential hopeful's nonprofit.

The returns for World of Hope Inc., obtained by The Associated Press, also show the charity raised the lion's share of its $4.4 million from just 18 sources. They gave between $97,950 and $267,735 each to help fund Frist's efforts to fight AIDS.

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