To: scanshift who wrote (5377 ) 5/10/2008 1:13:18 PM From: ravenseye Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 5673 mother teresa, tereza or thereza?greekhelsinki.gr ..."a nice guy by the name of memetaj"... ..."memetaj was a great host" ... first name michael or abdula, with the same surname as anna? was the girl you got out of the camp anna's sister, or niece? did anna (as tony claimed) ask you to leave several times? did you see tony video tape any thing? did you see tony distribute any money? tony claims to have a receipt: ... want to discuss at some length the $14K collected here from folks on SI and lurkers. I was made an agent of the Mother Thereza Humanitarian Organization for two reasons: 1) so I could handle and disburse the funds raised for refugees, and 2) so I could provide instructions for direct donations to MTHO At the time, this was totally consistent with my desire to mobilize help, financial and otherwise, to assist refugees in the midst of a calamity so huge it was indescribable. However, while in Macedonia, I noticed a strange conflict of interest. The local TV Station, TV-ERA, was run by the same guy who ran the MTHO. It wasn't until after I came back that Anna Memetaj told me that she suspected that much of the money that was sent to him at MTHO was possibly being used for his TV station since they no longer had any commercials on TV. In fact, when I was there, I saw that TV-ERA did not have any commercials at all. After I got back, I noticed that when I called MTHO, the phone was answered at TV-ERA. Anna suggested that I wait till such time as I went back to Macedonia spend the money or give it to refugees directly. Meanwhile, I had a letter that appointed me an agent of Mother Thereza Organization, so in effect I could legally and ethically spend the money on refugees as an agent of MTHO. I decided there really was no need to send it back if it could be used here.... ...As a matter of a fact even Texas has closed the issue; neither the district attorney who prosecuted my case nor the FBI are interested in it, period... Message 24229233 hmm, a depo i read involving tonys ex-lawyer doesn't agree with tony, it mentions a contradicting email from m.Memataj that the money wasn't rec'ed so how could there be a receipt? ...To demand of me a detailed audit of what I did with my own money is not proper and is none of anyone's business. The receipt is very real and was signed by Mr. Memetaj. The receipt specifically states that Mother Thereza Humanitarian Organization (MTHO) of Skopje witnessed me giving this money directly to families in camps and private homes. Sworn testimony of witnesses to these disbursements has been given under oath and penalty of perjury. But I never asked recipients for a receipt. If I was working for anyone or an organization, I guess I would have to account for it. But this was between the recipients and me and no one on this planet has got the right to ever ask me about it. It was a private thing. I didn't just create that receipt -- I have had it over one year. It was simply MTHO's best estimate of the money I gave out over there. I didn't wave it around or talk about it. I'm not claiming the deduction on my taxes, although my accountant says I probably could. So the receipt issue is a dead issue, although everyone on my private site knows that the cash I distributed was real and the receipt is real - as confirmed via a conference call with the director of the MTHO. Ultimately, my trip became much more of a public matter, because, with help from many friends stateside, we were able to bring back the very first two Kosovo refugees to the United States - Anna Memataj's sister and niece. ...Message 24229233 jefFREY wrote #22232274 3/6/2006 ...Fourth, the Court should reject the government’s attempts to undermine Mr. Elgindy’s extraordinary humanitarian efforts on behalf of Kosovar refugees. As the Texas sentencing transcript shows, the only facts disputed there with respect to Kosovar refugees were the exact amounts of cash that Mr. Elgindy had handed out to refugees during his trip to Kosovo, and whether a claimed $48,000 contribution to the Mother Teresa society had instead been distributed to needy refugees in California. (See Texas Tr. 55-84, 100-105.) how many refugees did tony facilitate? ...Upon my return to San Diego, I was busy with the Hoti family and the impending arrival of another 200 refugees. ...Message 24229233