{"id":31311,"date":"2011-03-28T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31311"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:57:56","slug":"grand-jury-investigates-kabbalah-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=31311","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Investigates Kabbalah Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Friedman reports<\/a>: Madonna\u2018s \u201creligion\u201d and the main object of her charity giving, the Kabbalah Centre, is being investigated the IRS. Sources tell me that a federal grand jury has been convened to ask questions about the organization. I\u2019ve personally spoken to two people who were served subpoenas from the grand jury, being held at the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York.
\nThe targets of the investigation, sources tell me, are the Kabbalah Centre, Raising Malawi, and the Berg family\u2013mother Karen and sons Yehuda and Michael, who own the company. Madonna, they say, is aware of the grand jury. The pop star has given millions\u2013not \u201cloaned\u201d as some reports say\u2013to the Kabbalah Centre and its offshoots SFK and Raising Malawi. In 2008-2009, she donated $2.5 million to them.
\nThis may be yet another reason that she hired top gun pr specialist Mark Fabiani through the Kabbalah Centre. As I told you this weekend, the Kabbalah Centre is being sued in Los Angeles for $20 million by Courtenay Geddes, a wealthy donor who claims now that she was swindled by the Centre and the Bergs. Madonna is being sued in Malawi by the board of directors of her cancelled school project for Raising Malawi, her charitable effort there with the Kabbalah Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Friedman reports: Madonna\u2018s \u201creligion\u201d and the main object of her charity giving, the Kabbalah Centre, is being investigated the IRS. Sources tell me that a federal grand jury has been convened to ask questions about the organization. I\u2019ve personally … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3404],"tags":[5434,25937,17453,25935,30626,25936],"class_list":["post-31311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabbalah-centre","tag-berg-family","tag-charitable-effort","tag-federal-grand-jury","tag-irs-sources","tag-kabbalah-centre","tag-mark-fabiani"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t