Mo. Sues (neo-Nazi Weltner's) Web Site Purporting to Raise Katrina Funds

[DeepModem Mom]

New York Times:
Missouri Sues Web Site Purporting to Raise Funds
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: September 7, 2005


The Missouri attorney general, Jay Nixon, filed a lawsuit this afternoon against InternetDonations.org, the hub for a constellation of Web sites erected over the last several days purporting to collect donations for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Also named in the lawsuit, Mr. Nixon said, is the apparent operator of the donation sites, Frank Weltner, a St. Louis resident and radio talk show personality with ties to neo-Nazi organizations and the notorious Web site JewWatch.com.

That site, which indexes Adolf Hitler's writings, transcripts of anti-Semitic radio broadcasts, and other materials, drew wide headlines last year when it appeared at or near the top of Google search results for the query "Jew." It remains at No. 2 today.

The Missouri lawsuit seeks to freeze the assets of Internet Donations Inc., a nonprofit entity registered with the Missouri secretary of state's office by Mr. Weltner on Sept. 2, and to shut down the dozen or so Web sites with names like KatrinaFamilies.com, Katrina-Donations.com and NewOrleansCharities.com. Those sites appear to have been hastily registered and mounted since Hurricane Katrina devastated large swaths of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi last week.

The Web sites, which use similar imagery and slight variations on the same crude design, all point back to InternetDonations.org, which advises visitors interested in donating to the Red Cross, Salvation Army or other relief organizations, that "we can collect it for you in an easy one-stop location."...


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07cnd-fraud.html?hp&ex=1126152000&en=4b4e5e934468535c&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[evlbstrd]

1. Jay Nixon has been a great AG.

He's one of the blue linings in this red state. KC, St. Louis and Columbia (home of MU) pretty much round out the rest of the blue.

[greekspeak]

4. I will have to agree

Very bright spot in a dreary state government.

[KamaAina]

2. I gave a shoutout to scum like this in the faux Top Ten I did last weekend

Why does it not surprise me that the scum de la scum turns out to be a neo-Nazi? :eyes:

I believe it went something like this:

8. Katrina Scam Artists. Since Katrina hit, there's been a huge influx of population in cities across the South. But now a place even hotter than Baton Rouge or Houston may be getting some company. I'm talking about Hell, of course, where the people -- and I use the term loosely -- who have been posing as Katrina relief agencies in order to defraud the generous public will soon be headed. Hope they're not overdressed...

[KamaAina]

3. I just found the whole faux Top Ten: Tryin' to Wash Us Away Edition

Yippee! Level 2!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=3954788&mesg_id=3954788

[NorthernSpy]

5. this is a guy who's a made career of accusing Jews of being "dishonest"..

... and "underhanded", and "greedy", and "scheming", and whatnot.

A classic case of projection, if you ask me.


:eyes:

[SemperEadem]

6. Who? Nixon or Weltner?