Groups say they never saw donations from charity golf event in Maryland

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Though it sounds almost impossible, apparently no one from the Trump family was involved.

Groups say they never saw donations from charity golf event in Maryland

Mike Murillo | [e-mail]
March 24, 2025, 4:38 AM

Two girls study in the Community Bridges' learning center in Silver Spring, Maryland. (WTOP/Mike Murillo)

In October 2024, a charity golf tournament advertised as a fundraiser which would help empower young girls in Maryland took place at the Lakewood Country Club in Rockville, and to those who attended, it appeared to be a success.

But now, almost five months later, the two charities advertised as the beneficiaries of the Leonard Sports Management Celebrity Golf Tournament say they haven’t seen a dime from the event put on by the company of which Ray Leonard Jr., the son of famed boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, is the CEO.

Shannon Babe-Thomas is with Community Bridges from Silver Spring, which works to empower young girls in grades 4-12. In August, she said she received a message from someone with Leonard Sports
Management who informed the organization that it had been selected to be a beneficiary charity of the tournament, and it was an offer Babe-Thomas said she was excited to accept.

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Mike Murillo is a reporter and anchor at WTOP. Before joining WTOP in 2013, he worked in radio in Orlando, New York City and Philadelphia.
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