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by Daddylawman » Fri May 01, 2015 2:04 pm

A professor at Brown and who focuses on youth activities is working on an article about people who misappropriate funds from youth organizations - like a treasurer for a league who pockets some of the money instead of turning it all over for the organization.

She's trying to find information on cases like that from all around the country. I think she's partly trying to get an idea of how these cases are handled and how differently they may be handled.

If you know of a case like this that involved the criminal justice system could you please let me know (just respond to me). I can just pass along the info to her, or if you're willing, she would probably love to chat with you about your experience!

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by Dugout Dad » Fri May 01, 2015 2:14 pm

The LaVerne, CA Softball league had a high profile case about 5 years ago. A bunch of articles on google.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1RXDA_enUS574US575&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=LaVerne+Softball+embezzlement&spell=1
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by Pale Rider » Mon May 04, 2015 4:40 am

Take me a while to type it all out but due to some obvious very fuzzy math from a treasurer (and his wife) while on a REC league board a friend and I did all the math, numbers crunching and review of bank statements...
Bet they stole more $80K in 4 yrs before they got caught...let me know if you want the story.
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by Battle » Mon May 04, 2015 3:57 pm

Pale Rider wrote:Take me a while to type it all out but due to some obvious very fuzzy math from a treasurer (and his wife) while on a REC league board a friend and I did all the math, numbers crunching and review of bank statements...
Bet they stole more $80K in 4 yrs before they got caught...let me know if you want the story.

Wasn't it proven that all the money (except for a few dollars) was accounted for and was cleared?
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by Pale Rider » Tue May 05, 2015 4:39 am

Battle wrote:
Pale Rider wrote:Take me a while to type it all out but due to some obvious very fuzzy math from a treasurer (and his wife) while on a REC league board a friend and I did all the math, numbers crunching and review of bank statements...
Bet they stole more $80K in 4 yrs before they got caught...let me know if you want the story.

Wasn't it proven that all the money (except for a few dollars) was accounted for and was cleared?


HELL NO!!!...One went to prison and the spouse was convicted and had to pay back like $18K...
When presented the evidence they both just said..'we stole it'...no remorse...
What sucks is they had been caught doing the same thing in another State...and weren't prosecuted...
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by rfmnz » Tue May 05, 2015 9:26 am

Spazsdad wrote:Plenty of cases in SoCal TB of coaches skimming from their teams parents unfortunately they continue in their ways today with no consequences.


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by Pale Rider » Tue May 05, 2015 5:16 pm

Pale Rider wrote:
Battle wrote:
Pale Rider wrote:Take me a while to type it all out but due to some obvious very fuzzy math from a treasurer (and his wife) while on a REC league board a friend and I did all the math, numbers crunching and review of bank statements...
Bet they stole more $80K in 4 yrs before they got caught...let me know if you want the story.

Wasn't it proven that all the money (except for a few dollars) was accounted for and was cleared?


HELL NO!!!...One went to prison and the spouse was convicted and had to pay back like $18K...
When presented the evidence they both just said..'we stole it'...no remorse...
What sucks is they had been caught doing the same thing in another State...and weren't prosecuted...


Will add that softball wasn't the only reason he got prison...
He was also treasurer for a large national clubs local chapter...
We found an odd deposit in Jan, which wasnt a month that that acct should have any activity...a fairly large deposit from the clubs acct he was treasurer at...we asked club president about the deposit...
He wasnt sure what deposit was for, but he WAS sure that it was NOT his signature on the check...they did an audit and found he was stealing money from that org also...some of which was from an acct managed by the State gaming commission...as in State Taxes...bad bad move Amigo
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