Posted on 01/12/2015 9:07:05 AM PST by smokingfrog
Virginia Beach, Va. – A Navy wife is admitting she stole from the Navy SEAL Foundation when she worked there handling payments, but her lawyer is keeping the details of the crime secret.
Tammy Marie Mason will be sentenced for embezzlement next month. Her court file discloses only that she stole more than $200 from the charity that benefits the families of fallen Navy SEALs. A document outlining the facts of the crime has been sealed at the defense attorney’s request, said a spokeswoman for the Virginia Beach Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
The charity’s top executive told NewsChannel 3 the loss was around $100,000. Robin King, the foundation’s CEO, said Mason had a charity credit card. Mason’s online resume shows she started working for the charity in 2010, handling checks and credit accounts. For most of 2013, King says the Navy wife used the card for personal purchases.
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I wouldn’t have thought that the SEALS would let liberals anywhere near their funds (or anywhere else, for that matter).
And the woman is obviously a liberal.
$200 makes the news. Meanwhile Clinton cannot account for 100’s of millions to Haiti.
What a lowlife. Stealing from widows and their children...
Jail. For a long time.
Jail. For a long time.
Way too liberal. She deserves the chair seriously. She is probably the worst person on Earth right now in my book.
One of the under-reported (in my opinion) stories of the past 10 years is the proliferation of charities and how they have been abused. Some 501c3 charities are literally operated by families out of their houses. You get hit by a hurricane, you have a disabled vet in your family, you have a sick son or daughter, someone in your family is the victim of a horrible crime and Presto! You can start a charity. But there are no controls and no audits and people are fallible so sometimes — many times in recent years — you get things like this happening. Its why I don’t give to these smaller, newer charities.
Nah.
Hillary Clinton’s still got her beat. As do John Kerry, Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, etc. etc.
Sounds like it is more than a $200 deal. Glad they caught her.
I’ve had a couple decent co-workers get themselves into trouble this way. Unfortunately, our company couldn’t prosecute them without compromising our customers. In “James” case, his caper started with an innocent mistake double dipping bewteen an expense report and corporate CC charges. Apparently, inexplicably, he got hooked when the mistake went unnoticed. He grew his little personal wealth with some strategic planning and took us for between $75K and 150K over the course of 2 years.
None of them stole from military people.
Here in NY, you can see near daily reports of middle-aged people stealing like this from their churches, small businesses and families.
One trend I’ve noticed is the excuse given is almost always to support a gambling habit.
Seems to be a greatly increasing trend since the State of NY got into the gambling business in corrupt cooperation with local Indian tribes (and lately, just themselves).
Really?
The charity should have had the systems in place to catch the fraud well before 100k was spent.
It doesn’t surprise me...
Nothing surprises me anymore.
I worked in a job for several years investigating embezzlement cases. There was no typical embezzler. They could be young, old, men, women, liberal, conservative, etc. They all shared one common trait however. Greed.
One would think so.
I doubt it, if she weren’t a conservative or Christian an embezzlement of this amount wouldn’t have made the mainstream news.
James 1:27New International Version (NIV)
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.
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