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Charity closed after fraud investigation
By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 17 July 2007
A charity set up to fulfil the dreams of terminally ill children has been shut down by the Charity Commission after two trustees and a member of staff were convicted of fraud against the charity totalling almost £0.25m.
The regulator launched the inquiry after police uncovered evidence of a major fraud against the Dream Foundation, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in August 2000. Maureen Lewis and former police officer David Foley, both trustees, and the charity’s fundraising co-ordinator Joseph Mulcahy, were all convicted of offences involving dishonesty against the charity...
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