Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has ask at least 50 charities to be more transparent about what they're doing with hundreds of millions of dollars raised to help victims of Hurricane Sandy. Speaking to reporters Wednesday in flood- and fire-ravaged Breezy Point, Queens, Schneiderman questioned whether aid money has been spent urgently enough in the nearly nine months since the storm.
Some 40 percent of about $575 million in donations—about $238 million—were unspent as of early April, according to an interim report Schneiderman's office released Wednesday. More current statistics on the total amount of aid spending were not immediately available, but the largest Sandy fundraiser, the American Red Cross, said that as of June 11 it had spent or committed about $225 million of the $304 million in donations dedicated to Sandy relief.
