Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it filed a lawsuit and settlement with Kars-R-Us.com, Inc. (Kars) over a deceptive fundraising scheme that the charity had engaged in:

"I joined the FTC, 17 other attorneys general, and four other state offices in suing Kars and its operators, Michael Irwin and Lisa Frank, for soliciting charitable donations of vehicles nationwide—including 318 vehicles valued at a total of $115,332 from here in Arkansas—that were supposed to assist patients battling breast cancer. The donations collected totaled more than $45 million nationwide, but it was determined that only $126,815 of that went to support breast-cancer patients."