Posted on 03/11/2013 10:35:37 AM PDT by chessplayer
The theft of more than $433,000 by a former local treasurer was covered up by the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) because the union feared the “potential impact on membership and loss of members,” according to an insurance claim document obtained by the Salisbury Daily Times.
Denise Inez Owens was the treasurer of the Worcester County Teachers Association (WCTA) when she stole state and national dues money to feed her gambling addiction. MSEA discovered the embezzlement in March 2009, but failed to report it to authorities. Instead the union persuaded Owens to sign a confession and agree to a restitution plan. Owens then resigned her union position and returned to work as a middle school teacher without notifying the school district of her predicament.
MSEA ordered a forensic audit of the local union’s finances, then filed an insurance claim that stated the offense was “Not reported because of potential impact on membership and loss of members.”
Bernie Madoff should have used that defense.
Teachers’ Union? Gee, what’ll that learn the choodren about honesty?
And you are not told in the article that ole Denise is “one of Holder’s People.”
http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20130220/WCT01/302200064/Ex-teacher-guilty-embezzlement
It’s coming to light that Delaware is probably a bigger $hit hole than either New Jersey or Illinois.
How much you wanna bet she will never pay the full amount of the ‘restitution’? Isn’t embezzlement a crime? Those fellow dues paying Union members should be steaming mad.
Taken for another ride by corrupt unions, so what’s new?
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