Fellow Conservative charges Fox host Sean Hannity's Freedom Alliance charity with unethical fundraising

Conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel has charged Sean Hannity's Freedom Alliance charity with unethical fundraising practices. She says that less than four percent of Freedom Alliance's earnings in 2006 went to college funding for children of fallen soldiers and care for wounded veterans which were the nonprofit's listed aims. She has accused them of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on private planes and limousines for Fox host Hannity's family and friends, with very little going to soldiers and their families.

Media Matters for America backs up the accuracy of Schlussel's numbers analysis, but does not fully endorse all of her claims because the Freedom Alliance does not state on its Web site what percentage of raised funds will go to their specific programs.

DebbieSchlussel.com posted the following: Despite Hannity's statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show, few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000, while Freedom Alliance appears to have spent tens of thousands of dollars for private planes. Moreover, despite written assurances to donors that all money raised would go directly to scholarships for kids of the fallen heroes and not to expenses has begun charging expenses of nearly $500,000 to give out just over $800,000 in scholarships.