Western PA Cancer Foundation Settles Lawsuit

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania cancer foundation has agreed to pay nearly $270,000 to more than 2,100 people to settle a lawsuit with the state.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett sued Slippery Rock-based Hope Cancer Treatment Foundation in 2006, claiming it solicited charitable donations for an event in West Virginia without being registered in Pennsylvania. Corbett says the foundation and its president Robert McConnell collected money for a so-called “Black and Gold Bash.” Corbett says the deal calls for the foundation to be dissolved within 120 days. He says McConnell also agreed never to operate a charity or solicit charitable donations in Pennsylvania.

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