DUTTON, AL: Wearing his traditional shriner fez, Clairence Ballard (cq) is photographed in his Dutton, Al., home on December 29, 2006. Ballard has become a whistleblower on the Decatur Shrine Club in northern Alabama for questionable financial practices and fundraising by the club’s members, accusing the Decatur Shrine Club of stealing money from bingo fundraisers which is supposed to be used for the Shriners Hospital charity. (JESSICA MCGOWAN/ for the New York Times)