For years the 9/11 charity "Stars, Stripes and Skates" drew the likes of Nancy Kerrigan, Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes, Hollywood's Steve Buscemi, and a legion of young skaters waving American flags to its televised shows.
The annual extravaganzas drew hundreds of thousands of fans to venues like Madison Square Garden, and millions of TV viewers. The money raised, the promoters pledged, would go to past and future terror victims.
But the ice capade was an ice-charade.
The amount of money generated remains murky. While the group's spotty tax filings claim it raised only $746,236 in revenue over eight years, a Post analysis of ticket prices and venue sizes shows that as much as $2.1 million might have rolled in through ticket sales alone.
What is known is that not a cent was paid to victims
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