Dec 12, 2012

Alleged Fraud At Social Security Employee Activities Association

     I missed this one earlier. From the Baltimore City Paper:
Sal­va­tore Petti, a 76-year-old Elli­cott City res­i­dent who has been at the cen­ter of a still-simmering dis­pute involv­ing the bocce courts in Baltimore’s Lit­tle Italy neigh­bor­hood (“Bocce Brawl,” Fea­ture, June 22, 2011), has been charged in U.S. Dis­trict Court with fraud for allegedly divert­ing funds from a Social Secu­rity Admin­is­tra­tion employ­ees’ association.
Accord­ing to the charg­ing doc­u­ments, Petti had been trea­surer of the non-profit Employ­ees Activ­i­ties Asso­ci­a­tion (EAA) for more than 40 years until 2010, and for about five years until Dec. 2009, “Petti diverted EAA funds for his own per­sonal use to sup­port his lifestyle, which included spend­ing approx­i­mately $430,000 at the Bor­gata Hotel, Casino, & Spa and $43,000 at the Trop­i­cana Hotel and Casino” in Atlantic City between about March 2005 and August 2010.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They sent that out at work by e-mail. I wonder if they would have sent out an e-mail with a link to the news article if the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner got caught with their hand in the cookie jar

Anonymous said...

Stealing nearly a million dollars from the EAA is serious and employees deserved to be updated about that since the EAA was funded with money collected from SSA employees. The EAA received money from employee membership fees, money paid for using the child care centers and the fitness center, the headquarters recycling program, no-bid contracts, and use of headquarters buildings to sell insurance, furniture, shoes, and other goods to Federal employees during working hours. Now we know where all that money went. The corruption was finally exposed thanks to whistle blowers and Commissioner Astrue. Crime doesn't pay.....

Anonymous said...

If he had won, good new for EAA and its members in SSA.

If he lost, well just another goverment anti-poverty program.