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Former Goodwill CEO Allegedly Embezzled More than a Million

By: Teresa Tennyson

Apr 9, 2024

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.

But prosecutors say that the former CEO of Goodwill Industries of Sacramento Valley and Northern Nevada used his position as head of a nonprofit to illegally enrich his own coffers instead of the lives of those around him.

Former CEO of Local Goodwill

On April 4, a federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment for Richard Alan Abrusci on 16 charges related to fraud and embezzlement. Prosecutors allege that Abrusci stole $1.4 million from Goodwill and other nonprofits during the five-year period ending in 2021, according to a press release by the United States Attorney’s Office.

Abrusci stole the money by setting up a fake company, Resolution Arrangement Services, and billing Goodwill and other nonprofits for services never performed, say prosecutors.

Abrusci pled not guilty in January to the original indicted charges, which were issued in November 2023. He has not yet made a plea under the superseding indictment.

Lengthy Sentences

Even if he does plead guilty, Abrusci faces hard time in a federal penitentiary as 15 of the 16 charges under which he is currently indicted carry penalties of ten to twenty years.

Abrusci faces an additional two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. His total fines could exceed $3.5 million, not counting any restitution he might have to pay.

Real Estate Efforts

No longer the CEO of a local Goodwill enterprise, Richard Alan Abrusci appears to have gotten a new job as a licensed real estate salesperson in California. His profile on MetroList, a real estate site, notes that “Richard’s philosophy is simple; he wants clients for life, not for a paycheck.”

He has one listed property for sale as of the date of this article. 

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Teresa Tennyson
Teresa Tennyson is the Editor-in-Chief for The Daily Muck. As a journalist, her work has appeared in Veteran.com, The Military Wallet, Mortgage Research Center and Yahoo Finance. She has a passion for factual and fair reporting. Along with The Daily Muck’s writing team, she reports on fraud, scams, and corruption and researches practical advice on how people can protect themselves and their communities from these crimes.

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