Posted on 05/01/2008 1:25:21 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A former executive of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in state prison for defrauding the San Francisco nonprofit out of $773,000, authorities said.
Carl Gill, 47, of Oakland was charged four years ago in the case. He was sentenced by Judge Cynthia Lee in San Francisco Superior Court after pleading guilty to two felony counts of grand theft and six counts of tax evasion, prosecutors said. He also agreed to pay restitution of $773,000, plus $174,000 in back taxes and $1,400 in fines.
Authorities at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics said the theft had hit the organization hard.
Prosecutors described a scheme in which Gill took advantage of a requirement that nonprofits receiving federal grants, such as the free clinic, return any unspent money.
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But how can anybody defraud a clinic in San Fran? I thought everything was free there...free medical care, free education, free food, free looooove.
ROFLOL! He taught computerized accounting and couldn’t come up with a better scheme than that? What a maroon!
He got away with it for so long because the hippies who run the place were constantly tripping on LSD and singing Give Peace a Chance.
It is the great plague of the non-profits. They tend to be victimized by the liberals that run them
I don’t doubt that for minute. It is Haight-Ashbury after all.
But I thought liberals were the most ethical people in this country....maybe even the whole planet.
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