A professional fundraising firm that solicited nearly $10 million for breast cancer research and education but actually expended a "shockingly small percentage" for charity has been shut down by a state judge.
Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Emily Pines (See Profile) in Riverhead found that over a six-year period the Campaign Center Inc. raised $9.9 million for cancer education, research and to help women who could not afford mammograms. But Pines said the for-profit fundraising arm of the already shuttered Coalition Against Breast Cancer did not expend a penny for education or research and donated only $48,000 to provide mammograms for about 40 women.
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