http://www.miafacts.org/prankster.htm

Extracts

A former Green Beret with multiple Bronze Star awards from Vietnam,
Sampley has the outward appearance of the stereotypical downtrodden
veteran outfitted by the local Army surplus store. But he is in fact a
savvy businessman who is forth- right about ***earning money*** off "the
cause" and is a key figure in the MIA issue.

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The material showed that he had created a self-contained financial
network that revolved around POWs and MIAs. One of Sampley's companies,
Red Hawk, manufactured the POW T-shirts and sold them to his nonprofit
Homecoming II, which in turn sold them at the vigil booth. Although
Sampley could say he was destitute, with only one personal bank account
containing $ 1 00, the organizations were quite healthy. His reported
earnings from the cash-only T-shirt concession amounted to nearly $2
million over three years.

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