Comments on: Nice Work If You Can Get It

By: jerry

jerry — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:04:29 +0000

Pascal said,”This looks like a scam.”
It walks like a scam and quacks like a scam so I have to line up with those who believe it’s a scam.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:50:04 +0000

We should all be signing up for his website mailings. Cost the asshole more postage. Toss the shit right in the garbage where it belongs.

By: Soren456

Soren456 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:08:40 +0000

I like what Theo says. It seems to me that until Delgaudio proves to have a real and negative effect, our best response is to keep track of him, build the case against him, but otherwise leave him be.

Delgaudio does at least two things for us: He siphons funds that might be used elsewhere to cause genuine pain, and he makes ludicrous the extremity of the arguments he and all the others use against us.

In my mind, he is a Walter Mitty.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:14:19 +0000

It’s astonishing to me that the IRS isn’t already after him. This is clear tax fraud.

By: james

james — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:48:38 +0000

Rob, the IRS does investigate fraudulent tax-exempt organizations (non-profit corporate status is governed by state corporation laws). Every year, the IRS revokes the tax-exempt status of hundreds of organizations. Many claim a religious, charitable, or educational exemption.

Maybe you could post on here a link to the complaint process at the IRS. If we all filed complaints, they might very well investigate.

Also, in what state is Public Advocate of the US incorporated? A complaint to the corporations office and attorney general seems in order. All this might take time, but a criminal charge could result.

The minimum fraud is that he claims he needs the money to lobby, but spends nothing on lobbying. Unless, of course, he’s falsifying his 990. Can’t imagine he’d do THAT!

By: Theo

Theo — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:56:13 +0000

Rob:

A huge portion of the Public Advocate’s expenses go to postage. As someone on his mailing list, have you ever received any mail from him via the US Postal Service? He would have to send out a lot of snail mail to justify those expenses, but as far as I know, he communicates via email. Can you shed any light on this?

As far as the group itself, I too was shocked when I read the 990s and learned how much this clown brings in. The group does virtually nothing other than maintain a website which is updated maybe couple of times a month.
However, I question whether it is in our interest to speak out against Delgaudio. After all, every dollar he collects is one less dollar available to anti-gay groups that actually hurt gay people. Effectively, he is robbing the anti-gay side of $1.4 million each and every year. That is a public service, so I hope that Rob Tisinai leaves well enough alone and doesn’t crusade against the Public Advocate.

By: Leo

Leo — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:49:19 +0000

They’ve been following this loon over at Joe My God for sometime. And the question that keeps coming up has to do with the legal implications of using completely fraudulent claims in fundraising materials?

Not only the constant misrepresentation of law and policy but the sheer crazy dramas he presents.

The account of the late night trip to the mail shop staffed by long haired homos is but just one example of the complete fiction this guy uses to get people to write checks—there are many others, including the claim that someone came into his home threw a blanket over him and proceeded beat him with a rock—there’s of course no police report or public record of any such assault.

It would be great to hear from someone with a legal background about what the regulations are regarding fundraising appeals—you can really just sent out works of complete fiction in an effort to separate people from their money?

By: Hazumu

Hazumu — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:39:29 +0000

If Eugene Delgaudio is a common garden-variety con artist, and as long as NOM doesn’t get the money, I don’t mind his greed so much. The folks that hate “the dirty fuckin’ homos” get to feel as if they’re doing something, and Eugene pisses the money away on himself.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:36:18 +0000

Delgaudio’s sexual fanatasies are always apparent in his fun-raising letters. You know what this guy really wants when he goes sniffing at those ware houses. He’s just like all the other closet-case homophobes…maybe richer, just as blatant.

By: Tara TASW

Tara TASW — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:43:04 +0000

“No wonder they’ll be pouring over my finance report…”

what exactly are we going to be “pouring?” Maple syrup? Santorum?