NFL community responds to dubious Tom Brady charity controversy.

After a lot of off season drama, some significant on-field setbacks, and a very public divorce that cost him a lot of money, it's safe to say that Tom Brady has been in the news a lot

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recently. Additionally, he has experienced some significant commercial losses that may give rise to legal problems. But this past week, he grabbed headlines for all the wrong

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reasons when it became clear that his personal charity had engaged in some rather dubious business practices.

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The Daily Beast claims that Tom Brady has been paying his non-profit organisation more than $1.6 million in payments to his for-profit business, which is eight times more

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than Brady has ever given the organisation. Making matters worse, the nonprofit organisation has not gotten any regular financing or donations since 2020 and has

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been operating at a large $7 million deficit. Brady made a very shady move that sparked a lot of controversy, and the NFL community certainly had a lot to say about it on Twitter.

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It would be overboard to say this is what having your own charity is FOR, per se, but they are designed to make this incredibly easy Zack Budryk tweet.

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Tom Brady doing some serious Brett Favre-ing tweet by Adam Best.

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It's been quite a year for the illustrious quarterback with the scandals, the financial setbacks, and all the on-field challenges.

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