Whitey Ford
08-02-2019, 01:46 AM
The CEO of a tax-payer funded nonprofit that serves some of the city’s neediest city populations bilked the organization out more than half a million dollars to fund lavish vacations and high-end dinners, prosecutors said.
Reginald Williams, 67, allegedly hatched a series of schemes to rip off the the Addicts Rehabilitation Center Foundation, which he ran, and a related group called the Addicts Rehabilitation Center Fund. Both groups provide social services and housing to drug addicts and those living with HIV and AIDS.
“Even while their organizations struggled financially – failing to meet contractual obligations and even furloughing employees without pay – these defendants continued to drain the coffers for their personal gain,” said Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. in a statement.
In total, the Bronx pastor netted $631,271 that he spent on monthly jaunts to the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for friends and family and extravagant dinners and bar tabs, according to prosecutors.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/bronx-pastor-accused-of-fleecing-harlem-nonprofit-to-fuel-lavish-lifestyle/
Reginald Williams, 67, allegedly hatched a series of schemes to rip off the the Addicts Rehabilitation Center Foundation, which he ran, and a related group called the Addicts Rehabilitation Center Fund. Both groups provide social services and housing to drug addicts and those living with HIV and AIDS.
“Even while their organizations struggled financially – failing to meet contractual obligations and even furloughing employees without pay – these defendants continued to drain the coffers for their personal gain,” said Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. in a statement.
In total, the Bronx pastor netted $631,271 that he spent on monthly jaunts to the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic for friends and family and extravagant dinners and bar tabs, according to prosecutors.
https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/bronx-pastor-accused-of-fleecing-harlem-nonprofit-to-fuel-lavish-lifestyle/