A charity supposedly helping people impacted by the East Palestine train derailment is paying back the money it raised.
Ohio's Attorney General David Yost announced Wednesday evening that his office has reached an agreement with the founder of a charity called the Ohio Clean Water Fund, that misled donors following the February derailment at the Pennsylvania-Ohio border that resulted in a toxic chemical fire and the contamination of nearby creeks and rivers.
The charity raised more than $140,000, but then gave just $10,000 to the food bank it claimed to support.
Representatives from The Second Harvest Food Bank alerted the Attorney General that they had no authorized partnership with the charity's founder, Mike Peppel.
He's now going to have to pay restitution to the food bank and a local emergency response fund.