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American Express Charity Scam

American Express recently ran a contest for charity.  The contest was simple: Vote for your favorite charity.  If your favorite charity was a top 25 vote-getter, it would be eligible for another round of voting.  The five winning charities (or "grand champions") would win a $2.5 million donation from AmEx.  Pretty cool, right? The problem is that American Express lied.  As Scott Greenfield reports here and here, some of the top vote-getters (including Fragile X Syndrome) were not eligible for the "grand championship."  (More here.)  Why?  AmEx won't say. Here is what seems to have happened: American Express had it's pre-selected list of 25 charities.  Likely, people within the corporation had their pet causes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).