Why is the AMBPPCT (Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust) so reluctant to account for the Meherabad real estate holdings of Trustees and past and present residents serving the Trust? Why is this not a matter of the public record in conformity with the required transparency and accountability befitting a Public Trust? Why should donors to the Trust and the public in general not be fully apprised by the AMBPPCT of who owns what land and how they came to own that land? The public deserves to be informed as to the Trust policy on potential conflict of interest represented by land speculation by Trustees and those who serve and have served the Trust. Surely our Lord and Master, Avatar Meher Baba, would want such a policy.
A few years ago the members of the AMBPPCT asked Baba lovers who were concerned with the transparency of the Trust to please come forward and give them factual stories. According to the Trust they had heard many ‘rumors’ about threats, land deals, money being siphoned off from the Trust account for private use for Trustee’s and their families, etc. etc. They then asked people to come forward and ‘tell’ their stories factually to the Trustees, so that the Trust could look into them on a practical basis. I was one of the people who came forward and gave a… Read more »
The sword of Damocles hangs by a hair over the dear neck of the Trust, even if the Chairman would wave it away with his hand.
And only Iskander can undo the Gordian Knot