The feds have put a 9/11 charity run by an Olympic figure-skating champion’s agent on ice.
Ice princess Tara Modlin, who reps flashy bronze medalist Johnny Weir, latched onto the credibility of a 9/11 dad, Lee Ielpi, to start the charity, 9/11 Families Giving Back, a year after the attacks.
The agent claimed to have raised over $600,000 to provide scholarships and aid to terror victims.
But tax records show no beneficiary ever got a dime.
The IRS just stripped the group of its tax-exempt status for failing to file income reports.
The purported charity, later known as the Heritage Foundation of 9/11, held major fund-raisers called “Stars, Stripes and Skates” events that drew figure skating’s biggest names.
She enlisted her longtime friend’s father, Ielpi, who lost his son Jonathan, to lead the group. She continues to list him as president on tax documents.
But Ielpi told The Post that he broke ties with the group years ago.
Though money rolled in from ticket sales, it all melted away on hundreds of thousands of dollars on expenses such as consultants, travel and rent.
Modlin admitted that she hired her then-employer as a six figure consultant, and later paid one of her best friends.
The figure skating agent’s group also footed the bills for transportation, hotels and meals for the Olypmpic bold-faced names like Nancy Kerrigan, Oksana Baiul, Sasha Cohen, Michelle Kwan and Viktor Petrenko, who performed at the events.
Modlin said she never took a dime from the charity – but she did pick up a Johnny Weir as a client after he skated at an event.
She blamed a volunteer accountant for not filing tax documents from 2003 to 2009. Those income disclosures were ultimately filed together in 2010.
“People make mistakes, and this was a ginormous one,” she said.
Modlin claimed the group changed its original mission and instead chose to focus solely on the memorial skating events.
“Every single dollar we made went right back into the shows,” Modlin said. “There was never any money in the foundation which is why we couldn’t do a show last year.”
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