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:
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
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.....
If he had won, good new for EAA and its members in SSA.
If he lost, well just another goverment anti-poverty program.
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