The Janus Foundation, a Switzerland-based nonprofit group dedicated to preserving the rain forest, filed suit, alleging that it was duped by George Alessandri, a Miami man who says he operates a multinational trade institute and who promised to raise millions of dollars for the group. Instead, the foundation charges, it ended up enmeshed in a bizarre fund-raising scheme involving a castle in Austria that cost it hundreds of thousands of dollars and costs for a promotional Web site.
October 18, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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Janus was the ancient Roman god who had two faces, which, as the myth went, faced east and west.
The charitable foundation that has taken the same name says it has two-faced problem of its own: The foundation believes it has been deceived by someone who wasn’t what he claimed to be.
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