PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Clackamas County authorities allege a 50-year-old Happy Valley man diverted money intended for an organization set up to help veterans with post-traumatic stress after his son returned from National Guard service in Iraq and committed suicide.
The sheriff’s office says the organization was incorporated under state law but never got the Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt status it claimed.
The sheriff’s office said Michael Andrew Brennan was arrested Tuesday on theft by deception charges. He’s also accused of food stamp fraud and of taking money from his father-in-law.
A call to a number at Brennan’s address was not returned, nor was an email to an address on the Saving America’s Heroes webpage. Whether he had a lawyer could not be determined.
His son, Matthew Michael Brennan, died in 2011.
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