Carole Baskin purchased a house late final yr … with funds from her Large Cat Rescue org … TMZ has realized.
Carole and her husband Howard bought the Odessa, FL home for $895,000. The deed, obtained by TMZ, lists Large Cat Rescue because the property proprietor. There isn’t any mortgage evident from the deed, so it seems the property was bought outright with Large Cat Rescue funds.
BCR is a charitable org and Carole is the CEO. Carole tells TMZ, she purchased the place after she and Howard bought their sanctuary/headquarters and moved the cats to the Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas.
As for utilizing charitable cash to purchase the home, we have finished analysis and there is nothing unlawful in regards to the buy, assuming she makes use of the home for the good thing about the charity.
However, utilizing charitable funds to buy the residence does elevate the query — how does this profit the cats? Carole tells TMZ, she and Howard, who serves as Treasurer, are nonetheless working Large Cat Rescue. She says, “We are still in business and plan to be for at least the next 40 years. We needed a place to work from.”
Carole additionally tells TMZ … “There is nothing nefarious about purchasing the property we bought to replace it since it’s used for our office work funding conservation programs in the wild, fundraising event, board meetings and storage of the records and equipment from the grounds we are vacating.”
