Complaints filed related to disabled veterans sports group
BRIAN WALKER/[email protected] | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 9 months AGO
COEUR d'ALENE - The record-keeping - or alleged lack thereof - by a regional nonprofit supporting sports activities for disabled veterans has drawn complaints from both Idaho and Washington.
Coeur d'Alene's Don Waddell, vice president of the Inland Northwest Disabled Veterans Sports Association, is pursuing grand theft charges through the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office against Spokane Valley's Jay Tadlock - the former treasurer, secretary and webmaster of the group - for allegedly not returning financial records and a debit card to the organization.
Tadlock, meanwhile, filed a complaint through the Washington State Attorney General's Office, accusing the group of illegal fundraising and not filing taxes. Tadlock resigned from the group on Feb. 25, according to a KCSO report. He was selected last November for his former positions with the group.
Waddell told the KCSO that the former president of the nonprofit resigned earlier this year so he, as vice president, is in charge.
Waddell said Tadlock was told he was going to be dismissed last month and, after he resigned, did not return the nonprofit's financial records. Waddell said he has tried to contact Tadlock multiple times, but hasn't been successful.
"We want the records back," said Waddell, adding that backup files were not kept. "What his motivation is, I'm not sure."
Waddell said there hasn't been any evidence that Tadlock has taken money from the group. He said Tadlock's name has been removed from the bank account.
Tadlock told a deputy that he has put the records in a storage unit, but declined to say where, according to a KCSO report.
"(Tadlock) was cooperative in identifying himself and understood why Waddell wanted to press charges on him, but he felt he needed to keep the files for the complaints that he filed," the report states.
Tadlock, who told the deputy that he also filed a similar complaint with the Internal Revenue Service, could not be reached for comment on Monday.
In his complaint to the AG's office, Tadlock states the nonprofit has no Idaho tax records for 2012 through 2014, no receipt for hockey equipment purchased with a $25,000 grant and was raffling firearms without a Federal Firearms License (FFL) permit.
The AG's office acts as a neutral party to facilitate communication between both sides to assist in resolving the complaint. It is prohibited from providing legal advice to or representing either party.
Waddell said he is cooperating with the AG's investigation and suspects there may have been communication breakdowns due to the nonprofit being without a president in recent weeks.
"We have nothing to hide," Waddell said.
The nonprofit, which has about 25 members, formed in 2010 to support sports activities such as sled hockey and trapshooting for disabled veterans in the region.
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