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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sandberg Family Tied to Sandy Scam

A pair with links to one Wyckoff family are accused of collecting $631,000 from donors and only giving $1,650 to charity.

A Wyckoff-based charity is accused of scamming donors who contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Hurricane Sandy relief organization. The operators of the Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation, John Sandberg and Christina Terraccino, collected $631,000 from various sources and only gave a tiny fraction — $1,650 — to those in need, according to a report on northjersey.com. The pair are accused of spending the donations on heating oil for their Sparta home, Apple products and dinner at a Spanish restaurant in Newark, according to Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa. Sandberg and Terraccino used the Wyckoff address of Sandberg’s parents to register the charity with New Jersey, but "authorities said there is no reason to believe Sandberg’s …

Vincent Louis Marino

11:43 am on Wednesday, March 6, 2013

If this was a brown person who'd shoplifted $150 in crap from StopNShop there'd be a dozen racist comments akin to a cyber lynching. These dirt-bags scam 100's of thousands and theres not one comment..   more ›

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