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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had two kids go through MYHA, one into TM.  MYHA was and is one of the best run programs any of my kids ever participated in and my oldest son ended up at one of the top Hockey programs in the country.  Keegan was alway fair and unbiased in everything he ran.  MYHA tryouts got team placement right almost all of the time.  Of course some kids underperform or work hard in the off season and improve well enough to be on a higher level team, but that is life.

I never had issues with him or any other coaches running camps and clinics to make enough money to live and raise a family on.   Of course there are bad actors that give favoritism, but Keegan never that I saw, not even close.

You can not fairly incorporate MYHA in and of itself into the basis of the article.   I saw much of what the article covers first hand, from the start of it.   [/quote]
As much as you'd like to believe that MYHA is all wonderful because many strong players go through the program, because they are competent in running coaching and a big club,  and because you enjoyed your kids' experience there, it's just a fact that [i]it's not legal or ethical for a non-profit to pay expenses to companies in which the board members have an interest[/i]. From the linked article: "Federal laws prohibit nonprofits from diverting charitable dollars to enrich insiders or their companies, said Laurie Styron, executive director of Charity Watch, a nonprofit that investigates other nonprofits."

Robert Weiss and Robert Keegan have both been compensated MYHA board members, and at the same time, MYHA paid Weiss's private company for scheduling and related services, and Keegan's company for coaching & related services. This went on for at least a decade through 2022, and even though the rest of the board turned a blind eye, it's still illegal and Weiss, at least, replicated this scheme with other non-profits. Note that these particular disclosures of the tax filing do not occur in the 2023 and 2024 filings that are available online, but the fact that it went on for at least a decade while no one noticed does not make it ok or legal retroactively. 
It's all right there in the tax filings, Schedule L. (Separately, the favoritism for players paying for services is only hearsay, but there's enough of it to warrant finding the situation suspicious.)

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