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Shriners Hustle Celebs?

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Celebrities exercise social conscience by supporting their charities of choice. What happens when celebrities don't do their homework? In the cases of Justin Timberlake and the PGA tour and NASCAR driver David Ragan, did they know that their support of the Shriners Hosptials for Children means that they are supporting a charity plagued by ethical scandals with a secret subgroup linked to sex crimes?
Apparently not.

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