A charity that accepted donations of vehicles that would pay for breast cancer screenings for low-income patients agreed Thursday to pay a $3.8 million fine and to restrictions on future fundraising activities in 19 U.S. states, including Colorado.

Kars-R-Us.com and its ownership, Michael Irwin and Lisa Frank of California, reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general from the states.

From 2017 to 2022, Kars-R-Us.com recruited donations using deceptive advertising, according to case documents. While it raised more than $45 million, less than half a percent of that money went toward breast cancer screenings.

Instead, the charity, its owners, and many of its vendors pocketed most of the money, per prosecutors.

Worse, of the money that did make it to Un

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