Last week, we attended a meeting of the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) in Washington, DC. In keeping with the season (Hallowe’en’s coming up), it was nice to see that behind their “scary masks,” government officials are just as concerned about nonprofits being victimized by fraud as as they are about protecting donors from fraudulent fundraising. We also heard directly from a panel of regulators about what conduct can spook state charity regulators into conducting investigations of charitable nonprofits: