More stealing than bases.
The wife of a Pennsylvania agent is accused of taking almost $ 150,000 from a youth sports program – and then blowing the money on concerts and lush stores – while he serves as treasurer of the competition, according to reports.
Carla O’Brien, 48, was booked on Thursday for stealing $ 147,400 of the Fox Chapel Area Baseball Softball Association for personal use, while supervising the club’s finances for a period of five years between 2019 and 2024, reported the Allegheny County District.
The resident of Indiana Township is married to a lieutenant of Pittsburgh, police, Sources told WPXI.
“Our organization has and will continue to work with law enforcement with regard to this issue,” Fox Chapel Area Baseball Softball Association, which treats around 750 children in nearly three dozen teams, told the Signal item from Bridgeville.
“We respect the legal process and the confidential authorities to handle the case correctly. Because this process is underway, we cannot give any further comments and we will continue to look for updates to the office of the public prosecutor.”
The alleged thief began to pilate the money of the youth competition shortly after she was chosen in her position at the beginning of 2019 – discovered the O’Brien schedule when she was expelled from the role last July and was replaced by a new treasurer, according to the criminal complaint, according to the criminal complaint, according to the criminal complaint obtained by local points of sale.
The prosecutors said that the board of directors of the organization became suspicious when O’Brien constantly would not meet her replacement to transfer the financial bills, causing the new treasurer to go to the bank to arrange the affairs of the competition.
O’Brien was said to be known to the members of the association last September that she started to steal the money after a car accident had put her and her husband without work and claimed that she was “in a rough place”, according to the application.
The alleged poacher has transferred almost $ 3,500 of the remaining stolen funds from the competitions of the competition.
Public Prosecutors said that the fraudster wasted the money at several retailers, including Sephora, Amazon, Kohls, Nike, White House/Black Market, TJ Maxx, Sam’s Club and Target, with different payments made to restaurants, apotheken, concert locations, an insurance company and stores.
O’Brien also used the funds to pay off credit cards, according to judicial documents.
She was accused of theft by unlawful taking, incorrect application of entrusted property, receiving stolen property and access layout fraud, several points of sale reported.
“Right [Matt] Rudzki today sued my client on the indictment and granted non-monetary bond about the allegations, ”Obrien’s lawyer, Phil Dilucente, told WPXI.
“We hope that this issue will be resolved sooner instead of later.”
O’Brien has to go back to court on April 23.
