Mansfield Man Charged With Unlawfully Soliciting Funds For War Heroes Memorial

Evan Walter Coleman’s U.S. Fallen Heroes Foundation also under IRS scrutiny

FORT WORTH – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged U.S. Fallen Heroes Foundation chairman Evan Walter Coleman of Mansfield with diverting the organization’s charitable funds for his personal use.

Coleman, who also uses the name Walter E. Coleman, founded the U.S. Fallen Heroes Foundation in March 2010, ostensibly so that it could construct a national memorial in nearby Kennedale for Iraq, Afghanistan and Gulf War veterans. Coleman abruptly resigned as the charity’s chairman just one day before he was required to respond to a subpoena from the Attorney General’s Office.