“I made a decision at the time that I was going to keep the money because otherwise he was going to spend the money on something else,” Sanderson said. “This way it went to a good cause.”
Charendoff suggested that even those guilty of financial malfeasance should not automatically be precluded from the donor pool.
“People’s holdings are so complex these days that isolating specific dollars and saying those are ill gotten is very difficult….. Even identifying someone where you’re going to say that half of the money is ill gotten is really difficult. The theoretical is one thing and the practical is another.”
(JTA)