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Originally Posted by Alexandersalamander
I'm not quite sure that the IRCF is in the wrong. It seems like they were kinda dragged into this simply by being the beneficiary of the raffle. The only way that they could help would be to give an albino tegu to Michelle, because the $3,000 was offered on Ty's part, and was to come from his personal funds.
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Actually if you read through the thread, there is quite a legal sticky area here. If ICRF is RUNNING the raffle, then they are responsible for distributing the prizes. If Mr. Park was running the raffle on ICRF's BEHALF, he's actually not legally allowed to do that unless he's legally an owner/member of the charity organization. If he was running a raffle all on his own just to give the PROCEEDS to ICRF, then the fact remains that he's actually not legally allowed to run a raffle as a for-profit business, since it is not apparent where and what 501(c)3 organization he directs, and ICRF finds themselves in a sticky situation of being associated with a less-than-legal raffle, involving themselves in it directly by publicly drawing the winning numbers. I think that's what's under consideration here.