Dodgers’ Charity Being Investigated

The California attorney general’s office recently opened an investigation into the 2007 salary of Howard Sunkin, the chief executive of the Dodgers’ Dream Foundation. Sunkin earned more than $400,000 in 2007, which was one-fourth of the Foundation’s budget that year. Nonprofit experts said that a salary this large is usually paid to someone who oversees a $100 million charity.

The Dodgers claim that Sunkin was paid this much as a bonus for all the hard work and time he invested into the charity for the previous three years.

See Katie Thomas & Michael S. Schmidt, Practices of Dodgers’ Charity are Said to be Under Scrutiny, N.Y. Times, Aug. 31, 2010.

Special thanks to Jim Hillhouse (WealthCounsel) for bringing this to my attention.