Jarett Robert Lewis, a 44-year-old man from Washington D.C, was arrested on Sept. 5 and charged with embezzling more than $320,000 from a non-profit advocacy organization.
With great power comes great responsibility. One trusted town clerk didn’t learn this lesson as he decided to steal the town’s money he was hired to protect.
Long-time Des Peres Alderman John Pound was sentenced on Aug. 1 to five years of probation and ordered to repay $292,305 he embezzled from two clients of his property management company from 2006 to mid-2020, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri.
Christopher Adam Jensen-Tanner, a former escrow company owner from Roswell, New Mexico, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for defrauding his clients, according to a July 29 press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, New Mexico District.
Nonprofit organizations perform some of the most laudable activities on earth: bringing medicine to the poor, education to the disenfranchised, and micro-loan programs so the impoverished can start their own businesses.
Employees at the Sandia National Laboratories worked unnecessary overtime and changed project codes on official paperwork, an internal Department of Energy audit released on April 1 found.
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