False Claims of Homeless Vets Being Evicted for Migrants Exposed as Hoax

The founder of a nonprofit group, Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks. The story was picked up by conservative news outlets, but cracks in the story emerged after an investigation by a local newspaper, the Mid Hudson News. The managers of the hotel told the paper the story wasn't true, and a receipt purporting to show that the Crossroads Hotel had been paid $37,800 to house the veterans appeared to have been sloppily doctored.