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WFAN Raises $400K for Officers’ Families Convicts


Topic: Community-Focused Initiatives
Posted on 7/17/2015

CBS Radio’s WFAN-FM New York raised $400,000 during "Boomer & Carton’s True Blue Charity Softball Game" at Yankee Stadium on June 3. More than 17,200 people attended the event, which benefits the Silver Shield Foundation, the NYC PBA Widows’ and Children’s Fund and the families of three slain police officers: Brian Moore, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. WFAN’s Dan Chozahinoff told Radio Ink it was "the single greatest night in the history of WFAN." View photos here.



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