Prosecutors said he and two other former executives paid mounting debts and day-to-day operational costs with donations earmarked for scholarships and research.
Mr. Fuller emphasized that the Global Village did not divert money from house building, because all the money came from donations earmarked for the park.
For the fiscal year ending in June 2002, it raised almost $1.7 million, not counting donations earmarked for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Donations earmarked for specific purposes by a donor usually come in the aftermath of a well-publicized disaster, and are flagged by those who process them.
In addition, the Michigan researchers mixed private donations earmarked for school construction with donations for operating expenses, thereby further inflating the study's estimate of per-pupil operating revenues derived from philanthropy, Mr. Wright said.
Jason Cone, communications director for Doctors Without Borders, wrote in an e-mail message that the organization was now asking donors to contribute to its general emergency relief fund, but that it would still accept donations earmarked for Haiti.
The Red Cross did provide a limited accounting of its receipts and expenditures, ultimately conceding that $4.3 million of the nearly $16 million in donations earmarked for flood victims remained unspent.
Political party committees, meanwhile, cannot accept donations earmarked for a particular race.
