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The nonprofit Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC) received $2.5 million in federal grant funds diverted from Mississippi's TANF welfare funds, as well as tens of millions in public funds as an element of the scheme. The Mississippi state auditor has termed the scheme "the largest public embezzlement case in state history".
In criminal law, misappropriation is the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a deceased person's estate or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets (a fiduciary duty).
Two nonprofit groups have sued Fresno’s primary hospital system alleging it diverted state and federal public funding earmarked for its downtown hospital to fund a new hospital project in the ...
Two people who were top aides to Lee Chatfield when he ran the House were charged last year with crimes, including embezzlement from nonprofit funds created for political purposes. Rob and Anne ...
Charity fraud, also known as a donation scam, is the act of using deception to obtain money from people who believe they are donating to a charity.Often, individuals or groups will present false information claiming to be a charity or associated with one, and then ask potential donors for contributions to this non-existent charity.
The investigation started from a tip, deputies said.
The classic example of defalcation occurs when a trustee recklessly invests trust funds and loses the money. If the beneficiary wins a judgment against the trustee, and the trustee files for bankruptcy , the debt (the judgment) cannot be discharged in bankruptcy because the debt was the result of a defalcation.
Worthington Councilman Doug Smith is ordered to pay the Ohio Attorney General $20,000 for money is accused of misspending through his nonprofit.