{"id":1913954,"date":"2023-04-13T01:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bogus-charity-stole-131000-meant-for-toxic-rail-derailment-ohio-lawsuit-alleges\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:18:56","slug":"bogus-charity-stole-131000-meant-for-toxic-rail-derailment-ohio-lawsuit-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bogus-charity-stole-131000-meant-for-toxic-rail-derailment-ohio-lawsuit-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus Charity Stole $131,000 Meant for Toxic Rail Derailment, Ohio Lawsuit Alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbogus-charity-stole-131000-meant-for-toxic-rail-derailment-ohio-lawsuit-alleges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0412\/a95e32b5-3ceb-40ad-ada0-39dd7ec1b15e\/audio.mp3?length=2434509&#038;duration=203\"><\/div>\n<p>Ohio&#8217;s top legal official, Attorney General Dave Yost, has filed a lawsuit against a shady charity that allegedly pocketed most of the $141,000 it raised instead of using it to help residents who had problems with toxic fumes and contaminated water after a train derailment and fire in East Palestine, Ohio. Leetonia, Ohio resident Mike Peppel solicited donations for his newly-founded nonprofit organization Ohio Clean Water Fund, but according to Yost, he diverted the money away from its intended purpose. Yost says he is &#8220;mad as hell&#8221; about the situation and plans to make sure the charity gets shut down.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4631644\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/29\/Yost-Bio.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Ohio Attorney General David Yost (Courtesy of ohioattorneygeneral.gov)<\/figure>\n<p>In his lawsuit against Peppel, filed in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court, Yost is asking a judge to issue a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against Peppel, to &#8220;prohibit him from engaging in additional charitable solicitations and preserve existing charitable assets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Partnership &#8216;Non-Existent&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The Norfolk Southern Railway train derailed on Feb. 3, 2023, in East Palestine, sparking one of America&#8217;s worst environmental disasters as the carloads of hazardous materials were burned. State and national agencies have since been helping with air and water testing. In a separate lawsuit, Yost&#8217;s office sued Norfolk Southern, accusing it of negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Peppel&#8217;s alleged fraud came to light when representatives of Second Harvest Food Bank complained to Yost&#8217;s office that they had not authorized any partnership with his organization, as he claimed in mass emails and text messages. The food bank urged Peppel &#8220;to stop advertising the non-existent partnership.&#8221; Peppel has since paid about $10,000 to the food bank, roughly 7% of what was raised.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning to make a charitable donation, Yost encourages you to check his website&#8217;s Good Giving Guidelines and Research Charities pages, to perform internet searches and to ask friends and family if they know anything about a charity&#8217;s reputation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organization raked in $141,000 but \u201cpocketed\u201d nearly all of that amount instead of using it to help East Palestine, Ohio, residents struggling with toxic fumes and contaminated water after a train derailment and fire, the state\u2019s top law official says. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a\u00a0lawsuit alleging that a Leetonia, Ohio, man named<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":1913955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[24265,6872,5332,6543,18090,4585,7588,4333,7916,7755,9660],"class_list":["post-1913954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-24265","tag-alleges","tag-bogus","tag-charity","tag-derailment","tag-lawsuit","tag-meant","tag-ohio","tag-rail","tag-stole","tag-toxic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}