CAIR Accused of Misusing $7 Million in Taxpayer Funds

On 14 March 2025, The New York Post report­ed that a watch­dog group had accused the Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions (CAIR) of finan­cial irreg­u­lar­i­ties involv­ing over $7.2 mil­lion in tax­pay­er funds. The arti­cle begins:

A Mus­lim char­i­ty with links to Hamas was award­ed more than $7.2 mil­lion in tax­pay­er cash, which has now dis­ap­peared, accord­ing to a watch­dog group. An “imme­di­ate inves­ti­ga­tion” needs to be launched into The Coun­cil on Amer­i­can-Islam­ic Rela­tions’ (CAIR) Cal­i­for­nia chapter’s use of funds, accord­ing to the watch­dog, who sent a com­plaint to the Depart­ment of Jus­tice Thurs­day. Accord­ing to the Intel­li­gent Advo­ca­cy Net­work (IAN), a Cal­i­for­nia-based, non-par­ti­san advo­ca­cy group, the mon­ey was giv­en to the chap­ter to help re-set­tle impov­er­ished immi­grants in Cal­i­for­nia between 2022 and 2024. In what appears to be a sleight of hand, the mon­ey – $7,217,968.44 — was sent to CAIR-Greater Los Ange­les and not to CAIR-CA, which was the only group eli­gi­ble to receive it, accord­ing to the com­plaint. The Greater Los Ange­les chap­ter of the Mus­lim orga­ni­za­tion, which is not a reg­is­tered non-prof­it and not eli­gi­ble to han­dle char­i­ta­ble dona­tions, received the entire pot of mon­ey accord­ing to the com­plaint, viewed by The Post…

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Key Points:

• CAIR’s Cal­i­for­nia chap­ter alleged­ly mis­di­rect­ed $7.2 mil­lion in tax­pay­er funds meant for refugee reset­tle­ment programs.
• Watch­dog group IAN filed a com­plaint urg­ing a DOJ inves­ti­ga­tion and revo­ca­tion of CAIR-CA’s fed­er­al accreditation.
• CAIR-LA, an inel­i­gi­ble non-prof­it, received and redis­trib­uted the funds, rais­ing con­cerns over trans­paren­cy and accountability.
• CAIR has faced past alle­ga­tions of ties to Hamas and finan­cial mis­man­age­ment but has not respond­ed to these lat­est claims.

CAIR pre­vi­ous­ly set­tled a law­suit to avoid dis­clos­ing its fund­ing sources.

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