To: Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations 207 North Office Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120 Phone - (717) 783-1720 Toll-free

within PA - (800) 732-0999 Fax - (717) 783-6014 RE: COMPLAINT AGAINST Mr. MICHAEL HERSCH ELI's Director of Development mhersch@comcast.net Phone 215-923-2940 Website: http://eli-usa.org/contact-afeli.html, Also: http://eli-usa.org/donate-to-eli.html The subject, Michael Hersch, a resident of Pennsylvania, of 1009 Delene Road Rydal PA 19046 purports to solicit donations on behalf of American Friends of ELI. Eli is a business in Israel which allegedly caters to children at risk. A search of Pennsylvanias DOS Charities Online Database reveals that he does not maintain a license pursuant to The Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes Act, 10 P. S. 162.1 et seq ., which requires fundraising counsels to register with the Bureau of Charitable Organizations prior to providing services related to solicitations in Pennsylvania. If they do not register, they can be fined up to $1,000 per violation and assessed additional penalties of up to $100 per day. Under Section 8(d) of the Act, 10 P. S. 162.8(d), fundraising counsels must also submit copies of their contracts with charitable organizations to the Bureau at least ten working days prior to providing services related to solicitation activity in Pennsylvania. If they fail to do so, or provide services before their contracts are approved by the Bureau, fines of up to $1,000 per violation and additional penalties of up to $100 per day can be imposed. According to ELIs own reports, $800,000 a year is donated from the United States. However, the web site, eli-usa.org contains false and misleading information: 1. The web site which Hersch presents to the public claims that the money donated in the US goes to a safe House for children. This is utterly false. ELI charges the Israeli Government the full
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cost of operating the safe house, and in fact inflates the bill five times. Whereas it costs ELI 3,000 NIS, $750 per month to accommodate a child, it charges the Government 17,000 NIS per child per month ($4,250). Clearly the safe house not only funds itself in Israel, it yields a 500% profit. The American donors are clearly mislead. 2. M r. Hersch does not tell Americans that the safe house accommodates only 15 children, and no more. It gives the false impression that it is a huge operation, by making vague assertions such as Eli caters to an area where 1,000,000 people reside. Still Elis house is only allowed to accommodate 15 people. T he pictures are false and misleading. In the web site there is a picture of a bright white neat building with flowers. In reality, that is not the safe house. The safe house is a dilapidated, horrendous conditions, infested with rodents, bunk beds, and prison type security. The web site says that the children get contact with parents three tiomes a week. In fact, it is a secluded closely guarded children prison, with no parent access. Even members of Knesset were denied access. H ersch publishes pictures of children with full face to gain sympathy. It is illegal in Israel to take outplaced childrens photos. H ersch touts a picture of a bus as a mobile clinic. In fact, no such bus exists and it is a dangerous activity to randomly interview children without the parents agreement, with the sole purpose of removing them, from parental care to the safe house or additional coercive treatment.

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The offending website Domain ID:D165808133-LROR, Domain Name:ELI-USA.ORG, was created on:12-Jun-2012 22:27:53 UTC. Therefore, please assess the penalties upon said illegal solicitor.