Hulk Hiding Under Charity Cover

The Hulk Hogan-fronted charity that brags it's raising cash for John Graziano's medical care hasn't paid his family a penny.

Nearly a year after Nick Hogan's crash, Graziano's attorney tells us that they haven't seen one red cent from "The Freedom Group," a charity that Hulk just happened to become the towel-waving spokesbeast for ... a week after the crash.

A source tells us that Freedom raised 60 grand last year, but it's unclear where any of that jack has landed. As we reported, they canceled their biggest fund-raising event -- the National Towel Wave -- because they didn't want to deal with Hogan drama.

UPDATE: High-profile Hogan attorney David Houston says, "To the best of my knowledge, the Graziano family has not requested assistance. A request must be made and go before the Board of Directors before a request can be granted. The J & J recovery fund is only a part of a much larger charity doing other things." Sean Chumura, one of the co-founders of Freedom, tells TMZ that Hulk was actually involved with the charity before the crash and that he's "absolutely not hiding" behind the charity.



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16. Get an anchor chain and hang him.

Posted at 1:44PM on Jun 26th 2008 by The Warden

17. The thing that irritates the hell out of me is that Terry right after the wreck gets this so called charity going where the public buys these damn towles at $5 a pop to wave. The proceeds are supposed to go for John's care. why in the hell should the public be paying for something the Bolleas are responsible for? Obviously most of the public must agree with me as only $60,000 was supposedly collected. Frankly I doubt it was even that much. And has the family received 1 cent from this so called charity? Hell no! Terry Bollea is a self centered liar who will do whatever it takes to make sure he is not responsible for this. A poor excuse for a man and an even worse excuse for someone to be admired and respected. Betcha he also had a part in the so called threats over the phone.

Posted at 2:06PM on Jun 26th 2008 by completely disgusted

18. Now, I have no idea where this Marine is being kept (what hospital) but if he's an active duty Marine he should be at a naval Hospital. If he is, there wouldn't be medical bills.

Again, I don't know where he is being kept.

Posted at 1:49PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Brattus Rattus

19. It appears as if each member of the Hogan family is just out for themselves. They are a bunch of spoiled, conceited, ignorant and dysfunctional people! They seem to thrive and thirst for the limelight whenever possible, but when one of them screws up, they want privacy and come up with so many lame excuses for whatever happened.
They stooped about as low as anyone can go with their comments about the victim in all of this-NO the "victim" is NOT anyone in their family!!
People do need to boycott them in every respect if everyone wants to send them a message that what their pathetic spoiled little boy (NOT a man!!) did was inexcusable on every level. This family tries to make the ordinary person think they are like we are and can relate through good and bad times, and that way some people will continue making them more money from whatever they are selling. They're all phony. They aren't getting a dime from this home!!

Posted at 2:51PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Dedee

20. Who cares about this story anymore. John is a green pepper for the rest of his life, they should just meet at the mediator table, get this over with, the only ones getting rich is the lawyers. The Graziano lawyers are idiots. Everyone, including TMZ, should shut up about it already. Big deal, back in the old days, people raced all the time, if you got injured, you paid your own bills, not sued someone over it.

Posted at 1:53PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Tell it like it is

21. He spent it on bleach for the family.....

Posted at 2:02PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Bebe Le'Strange

22. John is no longer on active duty but is a veteran. Not all of his medical bills if any will be paid for by the VA. Since his injuries were not from service related, it is very limited in what they will (legally) have to pay for. Just because you get out of the military doesn't necessarily mean you get free health care or any health care at all. As a veteran he is egible to go to a VA or Military Hospital but it doesn't mean thats it free.

Post #17 - Hulk Hogan has gone on record to say that some of the show was scripted and not all reality. Just like all reality shows, the shows are crap and scripted. If Nick saw those tapes, it proves that he was not paying attention or he has so a bloated ego that it could not happen to him.

Posted at 2:04PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Whatever

23. He's paying off Brooke to keep quiet about that butt rub.

Posted at 2:04PM on Jun 26th 2008 by I'm a joka

24. Victoria Royalston,

Does doing the best include supplying beer? How about allowing your teen son to coninue to drive a high powered sportscar after previous high speed tickets, is that the best?

They aren't called accidents any more. No one goes out planning to crash. They are simply called auto crashes now. Previous tickets and drinking make it far less of an accident. Accident implies that the driver isn't responsible. Nick is responsible. Nothing any of the family has done suggests that they accept that or feel any remorse, except for themselves.. Smearing a war verteran hasn't helped their image either.

Posted at 2:06PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Ida Clair

25. Graziano should get zero, he was a participant in a race, he raced all the time too. You participate, you pay the price......Stupid people like Nancy Grace saying he is a victim, her show should be off the air. Cry me a river. If he was walking down the road and got hit by Nasty Nick, then, yeah, different story. Keeping the kid alive as a vegatable is torture. Let him go in peace already. No defense of Nasty Nick, but he is doing the time the judge gave him. If it was not enough time, blame the judge. What is the sense of the charity giving money when they are getting sued and probably going to cough up some cash anyways???

Lesson for you kids, do not race or participate as a passenger in a race, you may end up a carrot or green pepper.

Posted at 2:10PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Tell it like it is

26. Completely disgusted, he is doing what most of us Americans do, care about ourselves and money, none of us in this world give a damn about anyone but ourselves. It is every man for himself out there, and I admire him for it.....it is all about the mmooneeyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:13PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Tell it like it is

27. 20. John is no longer on active duty but is a veteran. Not all of his medical bills if any will be paid for by the VA. Since his injuries were not from service related, it is very limited in what they will (legally) have to pay for. Just because you get out of the military doesn't necessarily mean you get free health care or any health care at all. As a veteran he is egible to go to a VA or Military Hospital but it doesn't mean thats it free.
Posted at 2:04PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Whatever

Good to know! I didn't know he was a vet. Yeah...that's not free. Thanks for the 411. < :3 )~~~~

Posted at 2:14PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Brattus Rattus

28. I even read somewhere that it is kind of a family affair (pardon the pun) to race cars and whatnot as they have video of Linda and Nick racing. Come on, lets be realistic. I can tell my kid all I want not to abuse alcohol or whatever, but if I'm doing it in front of him every day, whats he going to do? Nick was an aspiring race car driver who had wrecked on the track his share of times and had several tickets for speeding. I don't think people hate the Hogans necessarily all for what happened, but mostly for how their family has reacted and tried to make money off of what happened. They are the lowest form of life on this planet.

Posted at 2:19PM on Jun 26th 2008 by Robert Markle

29. Typical bait and switch BS.....or shall I say fraud??!!
Get these ass wipes out of the public eye and back to whatever planet from which they were bred.

Posted at 8:59PM on Jun 26th 2008 by NYC123

30. It most likely has been used to pay those obnoxious attorneys of John's.

Posted at 2:32PM on Jun 26th 2008 by jessicarox

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