The following is a serious Post regarding a most sad turn of events.
Mr Matt Tyson has been actively telling every single reporter and person , including those in Texas, that the approximate $ 14,000 that was raised here in the USA for Kosovar Refugees, was never given to any refugees and that I kept the money and didnt forward the funds to Mother Thereza of Skopje.
Here are the facts:
1.) The following post was made on April 20, 1999 by me from Macedonia:
Message 9034040
Help Please!!!!!<-------------------Please, Im hoping that everyone can help...I have met the person who is running a Humanitarian Organization here in Skopje and they are doing the best job of sheltering the refugees and placing them with other families here and taking them out of the camps and re-uniting them with family. the director actually reunited the young med student this afternoon in less than 2 hours ..I couldnt believe it.. she will staying in touch with all of us and let us know how she is doing.. I will be publishing and airing all the videos as I followed them around..
No one takes asalary the rent is donated by the andlord and the TV station gives them free airspace ..tyhings are very bad and I dont even want to go into details..till I get back..Buit I assure you that my stop in washington and my interview with NBC tonight will take a brief glimpse of what is going on..CNN is full of crap and our State Dept is so out in left field ..Im ashamed to even repeat what they say here in English to those who can translate.
My interview On TVERA will be rebroadcast on the net for free as sooon as I can get it formatted..
I am asking everyone who reads this to please, please send at least 10 to 100 dollars to the following organization: ( apparantly Mother Theresa was born here in Skopje and was Albanian so her foundation is now picking up the seriouis local effort to help these devastated people )
Humanity Organization:
C/O TVERA Channel 0 in Skopje
Mother Tereza Humanitarion Organization,
( 100 % Tax deductible in the USA..( I guarantee it) )
Tax deductible Number # 2281-8724-1
SKopje R. Macedonia
Qairska 38, Skopje, 91000
or
you can send vias Intl wire @
Account of Mother Tereza organization
Swift Code: STOBMK2X20611
Acc: Stopanka Banka a.d. Skopje
Any money that is donated will be matched by me..
Due to very strict Macedonian laws ..packages of clothes , food and other aid is very hard to allow in ..without the recipient obtaining a permit first ..anyone who cannot send money but has clothes or canned food or other aid..please Email my dad who will arrange for the shipping of these things through his shipping Comapny ( he doesnt know Im volunteering him yet)
You can email request and questions to:
mother.tereza@usa.net
Attention: Michael Memetaj
Next planned course of action we are going tonight to the Kosovo border to use my Night Vision cameras..to film the Serb activity ( more details to follow)
On the topic of the market..
..I see you are all getting some relief on the longs..That is good to see...I see that many made a killing on trhe shorts that is also great to see..... I wish everyone a great and profiatble week and a half before I get back..
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In this post I was assured that the organization had a Tax Id #.
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Lots of money was sent directly to them by many here on SI
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However many were not able to sendn it or had trouble witring it .so My atty at the time matt Tyson, offered to collect the money for the refugees behalf , based on this understanding.
We collected a total of $ 14, 250 dollars or so,
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2.) Mr memetaj ..director of this organization which appealed to me to raise this money , was made aware of my internet presence and ...solicited me to help raise funds for his work, as you may recall I went To macedonia escorting Mr Memetaj's wife Anna.
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3.) Upon My return from Macedonia..I have remained in contact witrh Ms Memeteaj and her sister whom we were able to bring back to the states...and she informed me that Mr Memetaj was coming to teh states..so I flew to meet him in Chicago,
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4.) Mr Memetaj...made me an agent of Mother Thereza .of Skopje in the following letter
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ORGANIZATA HUMANITARE
NÓNA TEREZÓ
Shkup, R. Maqedoni
Adresa: €airska 38; 91000 Shkup,
Tel.: +389 91 112 823
Mob.: 389 70 221 957 ( Emergency ONLY!!! )
Tel: +389 91 136 553
Faks: +389 91 136 498
E-mail: mother.tereza@usa.net
Swift Code: STOBMK2X20611
Acc: Stopanska Banka a.d. Skopje
Xh.Llogaria: 40100-678-44679 (Valuta lokale)
EDB 4030997358865 Stopanska Banka a.d. Skopje
HUMANITY ORGANIZATION
MOTHER TEREZA
Skopje R.Macedonia
Address: Qairska 38, Skopje, 91000,
Tel.: +389 91 112 823
Mob.: 389 70 221 957 ( Emergency ONLY!!! )
Tel: +389 91 136 553
Fax: +389 91 136 498
E-mail: mother.tereza@usa.net
Swift Code: STOBMK2X20611
Acc: Stopanska Banka a.d. Skopje
Account: 40100-678-44679 (Local valute)
EDB 4030997358865 Stopanska Banka a.d. Skopje
June 04, 1999
AUTHORIZATION
The Mother Thereza Organization authorizes Mr. Anthony Elgindy as an
agent of Mother Thereza from Skopje-Macedonia, and authorizes him to
list donation instructions to Mother Thereza-Skopje on his humanitarian free
Web Site, anthonykosovo.com
President
Avdulla Michael Memetaj
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here is the website:
anthonykosovo.com ( which matt has yet to change after numerous requests ) I have no control over it he built it and he wrote all content.
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Any way..Anna made me concerned about several things( i will not repeat them here out of respect for Mr Memetaj ) so I asked Michael to wait till i went back to Macedonia to oversee the spending of the money directly. I then later found out that the TAX Id # was infact not actaully tax deductible as I was led to believe ..so I then sent the following letter to each donor: ( which enraged Mr Memetaj ..who then contacted matt Tyson and a certain someone else who was on this same tri[p but who left 5 days earlier thinking I was never going to get anything done and that i was wasting my time there.
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Upon My return and upon Mr Tyson getting the authorization letter directly from Mr Memetaj..Matt Tyson released the funds to me,
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Upon learning of the tax Id problem I sent the followiong letter. to all the donors
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anthonypacific 09:19:573 EST
[To those who sent in Money for the benefit
> > >of Mother Thereza via Matt and ultimately myself]
> > >November 1, 1999
Dear Friend,
In April of this year I traveled to Macedonia and visited many of the camps that housed Kosovar Refugees, and asked people back here in the States to dontae money to the MotherThereza Organization of Skopje Macedonia. This money, has been spent ,many times over, some here in the States , by myself as an authorized agent of Mother Thereza and this is possibly not recognized by Mothe Thereza, whom I no longer support,for various reasons which are understandable but still unacceptable to me, for instance, I have come to learn that these donations are probably not going to be tax-deductible as originally stated since they are not recognized by the United States as a Charity. In addition I wanted to oversee the spending of this money first hand.
I am giving you two options:
First, you may request that you recieve a return of these funds, I will personally pay these funds back, and the second is that you allow me to disburse an amount equal to your doination directly to some of the nearly 200 Kosovar Refugees here in SanDiego, I will provide you with the name and the adress and phone of the recipient of your donation.
If this is unacceptable, I believe it is only fair that you be offered your donation back plus interest.
Please advise me via fax at 619-756-5381, include a phone number or you may email me back your decision at anthony@anthonypacific.com.
Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter of Authorization I have from the Mother Thereza Organization, along with a reciept of what I myself donated seperate
from your donations.
If you have any questions , please feel free to contact me at 760-645-5900.
Sincerely,
Anthony Elgindy
anthonypacific.com
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On November 15th I severed all ties to Mr Tyson , due to his inability to account for large sums of money and a multitude of other reasons..3 days later I was contacted By reporters and others that started diggin into Matts allegations that I kep some or all of this money, In each instance the reporter called me back and told me that they had concluded that Mr Tysons claims were completelyt unfounded. I released the name and adress of each donor to the reporters and I asked Mother Therza ion Skopje do the same.. This is sad sad thing that has happened...
So its all out there who gave and how much and wher it went
And the whole episode has been transformed from a trip that resulted in more than 25 people getting help and many others in Macedonia also were saved by donations from here to a nasty regurgitated pack of lies spewed from the mouth of a scorned atty and Business associatte ..
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each and every single donor ....authorized the money to be either returned or to be spent here in the states on a refugee living here. I have been the sole source of Support for the Hoti family and their Uncles family prior to him getting a job now at Camp Pendleton.
So that is the whole story
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Can someone tell me what I did that was wrong......and how something that was meant to help ...has been so sullied by two people who have never helped a soul in their life ??
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