USA Harvest Founder Facing Charges

{Louisville, Kentucky}...Sixty-three year old Hugh "Stan" Curtis of Louisville, the founder of USA Harvest, was charged, in a bill of information, Wednesday with failing to pay taxes on $553,891.67 from 2005 through 2008. Curtis, who founded the organization in 1989 as Kentucky Harvest in Louisville, faces charges of mail fraud, money laundering and filing false income tax returns. He is charged with taking $183,354 in donations from the charity and charging $370,537.67 in personal travel expenses. USA Harvest uses volunteers to pick up surplus food from restaurants, hotels, hospitals, and various other food suppliers and deliver it to missions, soup kitchens, shelters and people in need.