Just got this from the Sandals campaign:

PHILADELPHIA, PA—In a letter to Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Alan Sandals today called for an investigation into Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, a charity founded and led by incumbent Senator Rick Santorum. Following the publication this morning of an investigative report in the Philadelphia Daily News, the letter provided additional evidence and raised additional questions that the Santorum charity made improper use of charitable contributions.

Sandals’ letter requesting a thorough investigation raises four main points:

1) Operation Good Neighbor violated Pennsylvania law because it failed to register with the Commonwealth, despite having raised more than $25,000.

2) Although normal charities typically use 75% of charitable funds raised for program-related grants, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation only used 35.9% for that purpose. A surprising 56.5% of funds raised for charitable purposes were used instead to subsidize salaries, fundraising, travel, conference costs, and rent.

3) The Executive Director of the Foundation, Robert G. Bickhart, was paid $50,000 during 2002-03. Bickhart also serves as the Santorum election campaign’s finance director.

4) Bickhart’s business, Capitol Resource Group—a lobbying firm which is self-described as a “government affairs consortium”—occupies the same office suite as the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation AND Rick Santorum’s campaign office. The address for all three organizations is One Tower Bridge, Suite 1440, West Conshohocken.