Posted on 10/22/2025 10:49:47 AM PDT by artichokegrower
The executive director of a Missouri nonprofit stole $10 million from a program intended to provide meals for low-income children and blew it on mansions and luxury cars, her trial heard.
Connie Bobo, 46, ran the New Heights Community Resource Center in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton for a decade.
She enrolled the charity in two US Department of Agriculture-funded programs that reimburse nonprofits for distributing food to needy children, prosecutors said.
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This is par for the course for a lot of charities. Even respectable ones. Its amazing how little of charitable donations make it to the intended recipients and how much just gets shuffled around from non-profit to non-profit to pay employee and executive salaries. Look at what happened to the money raised for victims of the California wildfires. This woman was just a little more egregious than most.
Paging Yogi Bear...
...Mister Yogi Bear
...The U.S. Attorney’s office said the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services paid out about $11 million from February 2019 to March 2022, after Bobo submitted reimbursement claims stating that the organization served nearly 6 million meals. The indictment said New Heights purchased only enough food and milk to serve less than 3 million meals.
Instead, according to the indictment, Bobo used the money to buy a home worth nearly $1 million, bought homes for relatives and used $2.2 million of the money on a commercial real estate investment. She also gave nearly $1.4 million to a romantic partner who spent $211,907 of the funds on a Mercedes-Benz, the indictment stated...
African American as usual.
“Charities” are one of the biggest scams in America,
Yep.
Don’t hold your breath for National coverage
Don’t hold your breath for a public trail.
Plea bargain with comfy terms, little to no jail time and some kind of ‘restitution’ also demanded.
IOW - a free pass.
DEI hire on trial--Connie Bobo blew $10m tax dollars meant to feed poor children
on mansions for her family and a yellow Mercedes for her lover, court hears.
Grifter. She’ll get a slap on the wrist because of her tearful and remorseful apology to a jury of her peers (i.e., all black jury).
“…spent $211,907 of the funds on a Mercedes-Benz”
What happened to the $0.39?
I wonder how much of the black upper middle class is composed of grifters like her.
Can understand her having to pay for sex. He’s no studly looking either.
“This is par for the course for a lot of charities.”
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+1
They may be “not for profit”, but they’re not against large compensation, perks and comfortable offices for themselves.
Bobo??? Boo boo says “don’t get me the least bit involved!”
Her boyfriend is Howard Hughes III. You would think that with that lineage and that kind of money, he would be able to buy his own 211,000 dollar G550 Wagon 4X4 Squared.
My mom did give me good advice: If you are going to steal, go BIG or go home. She gave me this advice while Boesky was on trial. So, I’m honest and relatively poor... :|
That’s some rather cold hearted crime.
Taking food from the mouths of hungry children.
I only donate to an animal shelter in our town, There are two, but one kills dogs and cats if they’ve been there too long. , Got a beautiful cat on his last day before death and the best dog ever on the last hour of her last day another time.
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The G550 4x4squared has an EPA-estimated fuel economy of 11 mpg city/11 mpg highway/11 mpg combined.
Not very environmentally conscious either.
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