In a turn of events that could only be written in Hollywood, Tedd Collins IV has now been outed as an accused thief and scam artist based upon reports that he has worked on behalf of other fund-raising opportunities. Collin's victims have all surfaced recently due to the press' attention on Schwartz's critical condition.
Collins’s legal problems were not known to Schwartz’s family or Yale officials until one of his alleged fraud victims saw news articles about his charitable work and contacted the university and The New York Times. On Tuesday, Yale officials said that they stood by Collins’s volunteer work, explaining they had no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. But it is not clear what has happened to the more than $10,000 he has raised this year in charitable contributions for Mandi Schwartz and other leukemia patients. The Schwartz family said it had not received any money from Collins.I hope that none of you were a victim of Collins' apparent scam. Other than trying to help out Mandi by spreading her unfortunate tragic story, I have to say that I have lost some money - only a few bucks to this jerk.
I will be keeping a close eye on this story as it develops.
New York Times and Hockey Wilderness
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