So there’s a charity formed in Houston called Helping a Hero.  Meredith Iler runs it.

Come to find out, it isn’t much of a charity.  There are numerous complaints from veterans who were bilked.  They were told that if they bought a lot of land, Helping a Hero would donate $100,000 toward a house and builders would contribute that much too.

West Point graduate Sam Brown was one of those wounded veterans.  He bought the land, he and his wife paid taxes on it for a year, and …..

Almost weekly, he pleaded with the charity for an update. He said all he got from Helping A Hero founder Meredith Iler were excuses.

“That was the theme, ‘Sam just bear with us, we don’t have everything lined up yet,'” Brown said, quoting Iler. “‘We are working on it, we are working diligently.'”

He finally sold the land and give up.

This happened over and over.  When the local tv station investigated, the found….

Veteran Eddie Wright of Conroe, Texas, recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, served on the board of Helping a Hero for six months. He said he quit after learning of how Meredith Iler was spending donation money, such as a $3,500 breakfast for advisory board members at the exclusive River Oaks Country Club in Houston.

Wright says he’s troubled by other expenditures, such as an unexplained $39,000 reimbursement to Iler and a $20,000 payment for anonymous speaker travel.

That does seem a little excessive for breakfast.  But what Wright found out next really floored him.

Wright later learned that speaker was former President George W. Bush, flying a private jet from Houston to Dallas in association with the charity’s 2012 annual fundraiser gala. What upsets him more, he says, is the fact that Iler paid Bush $100,000 to speak at the same gala.

“You are our leader. Why would you charge somebody $100,000 to raise money for men and women who are wounded fighting a war that you commanded us to go fight?” Wright said.

Is there going to be a time when George W. Bush isn’t making money off the misfortune of young American men and women fighting a war?

I thought I was as cynical as a human was biologically able to be.  But this takes the cake.  Is there a pit of hell deep enough for this man?

Oh yeah, there’s an investigation.

News 8 has confirmed that both the Texas attorney general’s and the Harris County district attorney’s offices are investigating complaints filed against Helping A Hero.

Yep, both Republicans.  That mean Bush will get a medal and the vets will get the screw.

Meredith Iler lives in Cypress.  Here is her Texas voting record.  The R’ s mean Republican.

Thanks to Sandy D for the heads up.