Kars4Kids，原来是一个犹太诈骗集团！

估计美国华人都在电视或者广播中，听到过这首家喻户晓的广告歌：

1-877-Kars4Kids

K-A-R-S Kars for Kids

1-877-Kars4Kids

Donate your car today

这家犹太人经营的“非盈利”慈善机构，打着资助贫困地区儿童的旗号，把生意做得风生水起，可谓日进斗金。

不过，焖蹄来了：无数有爱心的美国人把自己的车无偿捐献后，这家“非盈利慈善”机构真得把钱用于资助贫困地区儿童了吗？

答案是：HELL NO ！ 

啥也不说了，看最近的 breaking 牛死：

The twangy jingle produced by Kars4Kids will no longer be broadcast in California, at least in its current form, after a state judge determined last week the charity's ads amounted to false advertising.

The infamously catchy tune – “1-877-Kars4Kids/K-A-R-S Kars for Kids/1-877-Kars4Kids/Donate your car today” – has been on airwaves for nearly two decades. During that time, Kars4Kids has faced litigation and state government investigations for its misleading fundraising practices.

Bruce Puterbaugh brought suit against the charity in 2021, after he parted ways with a nonfunctional 2001 Volvo XC valued at $250.

He donated to the charity, believing it worked in service of “underprivileged kids from all over the US”, according to documents from the Orange county superior court.

Puterbaugh would later learn Kars4Kids is used to fund Oorah, a Jewish non-profit. That organization runs summer camps in the tri-state area and organizes gap year trips to Israel for 17- and 18-year-olds. Oorah also used $16.5m funneled from Kars4Kids to buy a building in Israel as it expands its presence there.

“I feel taken advantage of by the ad and information that was not there,” he said in court testimony.

Esti Landau, the organization's chief operating officer, testified that the well-known ad does not mention the Jewish community. Kars4Kids funnels about $45m annually to Oorah. Of the 120,000 cars donated nationwide, approximately 30,000 originated in California, per court documents. It's unclear over what time period those cars were donated.

Kars4Kids was ordered to pay $250 in restitution to the plaintiff and given a deadline of 30 days to “cease all non-compliant broadcasting in California”.

“Money cannot ‘un-donate’ a car or restore the donor's belief that they were helping a local, needy child,” the court wrote in its ruling. “When a charity generates millions annually through a ‘jingle’ that conceals its primary religious and geographic focus, it creates an unfair playing field for local California charities that are honest about their missions.”

Any future ads in the state must disclose its religious affiliation and geographic location. They also cannot include images of prepubescent children, given that several of Oorah's programs support young adults.

给懒得读英文的吃瓜群众总结一下：

Kars4Kids，这家犹太人经营的“非盈利”慈善机构，打着资助贫困地区儿童的旗号，根本就没有把钱用在贫困地区儿童身上，而是用在根本不缺钱的犹太人的宗教社团，犹太社区青少年的免费夏令营，组织美国犹太社团去以色列免费旅行观光，甚至在以色列购买地产。

而Kars4Kids的CEO，犹太人Eliyohu Mintz，每年的年薪超过18万。

从 Bernie Madoff，到 Sam Bankman-Fried，到 Alex Mashinsky，到 Kars4Kids，在美国这个文明法制的西方现代社会，为何犹太诈骗集团如此猖獗，如此屡禁不止，如此泛滥成灾 ？！