NEW YORK -- A grants administrator for the Rockefeller Foundation was convicted Wednesday of stealing $421,000 from her employer by looting a matching gift program that triples donations made by employees to nonprofit charities.
Cheryl McEwan was found guilty of two counts of second-degree grand larceny and six counts of filing false business records after her second trial on those charges. Her first ended in a hung jury in November. McEwan, who earned $80,000 a year at the foundation, faces up to 15 years in prison on each second-degree grand larceny charge, the top counts, when Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Marcy Kahn sentences her Feb. 28.
From 1998 through 2004, McEwan, 51, falsely reported that she had written personal checks for donations to Green Sphere, an environmental charity. She then submitted the receipts for her donations to the foundation. A Green Sphere founder, Frank Melli, would cash McEwan's checks, apply to the foundation for the triple matching gift and kick back McEwan's donation and more, prosecutors said. The defendants stole $188,500, prosecutors said.
Does she know how lucky she is to work at the Rockefeller Foundation? Seriously? And she didn't think they'd find out? Blah.
Hire me. I'll take $80k to help give money away. And, I'll actually give it away.
No comments:
Post a Comment