A year after FireAid benefit concert, a GOP-led House committee says probe points to ‘diverted’ funds
Shortly after last January’s devastating Southern California wildfires, a star-studded lineup of musical artists came together — to much fanfare — to raise money for victims of the Palisades and Eaton fires.
But nearly a year later, a House Judiciary Committee report suggests that FireAid, the nonprofit which organized the benefit concert and raised approximately $100 million, steered some funds toward projects that had nothing to do with fire recovery – a claim which FireAid disputes.
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