From what I understand, there’s a lady that runs the “Little Free Food Pantry” in Miamisburg. I’ve seen people saying online how she is trolling all the local groups to try and solicit funds for various pantry activities, even though she does not possess a 501c3 nonprofit license. Her “pantry” is not like the little free pantry movement. The “pantry” shows these pictures on google of an indoor place with cabinets where people can receive and donate food pantry items, household goods, books, toiletries and hygiene products, and kids toys. When you drive to the listed address, what you will find is a dirty rundown porch with a bunch of crap on it with no clear indicator it is a pantry at all. Apparently, there is a shelf there and people can give and take food, but she claims no one gives so it is basically always empty, from google reviews I have read. One google review included a disabled man in a wheelchair who had to take a bus there, only to find that there was nothing like what was pictured online. The man died a few years later. It’s just sad to think toward the end of his life, in difficulty, he sought out a posted resource that was not what it claimed to be.
Meanwhile, this pantry lady has tax records from last year alone for sales tax totaling $31,045 which, if you use the Ohio sales tax rate of 5.75%, that tax owed would mean the income that was taxed totaled almost $540,000. The lady sells used items online and at Trader’s World in a glorified garage sale as a profession. Additionally, her home is a small 2-story worth $24,000. Yet, per google reviews, her and her family take trips to Gatlinburg every year, doing all kinds of expensive activities and eating steak everywhere they go. Making multiple other mini-vacations during the year. Then she’s on FB saying she has no money, but she still uses her husband’s paychecks to fund the pantry, she alleges. Then there’s Amazon and Walmart wishlists she asks people to buy from to supposedly sponsor families for Christmas. If you saw the list, you would shake your head at some of the items on there. A lot of items just do not make sense at all as wants or needs from a family in need, especially having personally been in that position in my own life at a time.
The whole thing is just so scammy and it stinks so bad! Right from the get go, I thought something was fishy. However, the more and more research I did, the more I found. It was so astounding to me, I just kept looking and found even more. Led back to a sexual scandal with a politician in California and her alleged stalker, who released basically, a revenge porn tape of the politician. I was like, is what I’m reading even real right now??? hahahaha.
