Fundraiser who vanished says he has new event

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Fundraiser who vanished says he has new event
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 20:31:52 EDT

A Maryland man who vanished in January 2009 with thousands of dollars that he raised for a presidential inaugural ball for veterans that never happened — leaving sponsors, entertainers and ticketholders in the lurch — is back.

Using a slightly different variation of his name, D. Dante Anthony Hayes is trying to raise money for a “Maryland Armed Forces” event, seeking to sign up military organizations to sponsor a combination benefit concert and fashion show that he claims will be held May 22 in a Baltimore park.

Hayes, who uses multiple addresses in Maryland and the District of Columbia, is the director of a nonprofit group that he formed called the Congressional Education Foundation for Public Policy. His pitch this time is about the same as last time, asking military organizations to lend their names to his event in return for a promised 10 percent of the proceeds.

He called himself simply Dante Hayes in late 2008 and early 2009 when he lined up several military and veterans groups, 34 beauty queens and some entertainers for an armed forces inaugural ball that never took place. He appears to do most of his business out of a residence in Baltimore, but in a March 16 interview refused to provide an address for where his foundation is based. “I don’t have to tell you. You find out,” he said. He admitted he has never had an office at the address on the foundation’s web site, saying the site was incorrect.


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