A fine upstanding member of the Grifter Party. However, he will now be deleted from their records as he wasn't smart enough to cover his tracks.

They would be perfectly happy to steal food and shelter from the disabled, poor, and helpless in order to enrich themselves.

and help directly. When large sums of money are involved, some people just can't help themselves. I think they assuage their consciences by thinking "well, I'm helping people, too, so I might as well help myself!"

The bank is really at fault here, for allowing checks made out specifically to a charity to be deposited into an account under this man's name.

EVERYONE trusted him. He was well respected. The bank never dared to question him.

where the money comes from. It could be drug money for all they care.

Kinks had a song about him back in the seventies.

"He's a well respected man about town

Doing the best things

So conservatively"

Thank you Ray Davies

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I have never seen this....ugh, so true.

I went to high school near Los Angeles when Ronnie Baby was in his first term as governor. I loved Conrad's work.

America and the world changed under his "leadership." Really, it was subtle at first, then the "me, me,me" society emerged. If "trickle-down" is the "legitimate" economic model...then most anything is acceptable in peoples quest to get a large chunk of the pie.
Reagan made sociopaths the ideal leaders of everything.

How do they take money that is specifically meant to help others and use it for themselves? I just don't get it. Can they really enjoy it?

Glad he was caught.

He projected charm and sincerity. Sheesh, what a sociopath.

was that he direct-deposited into his account, and almost no one gets their actual physical checks back in their bank statements. So there's not the same opportunity to turn over the check and notice where it was deposited. So there's a systemic thing going on that helped made this possible.

Also, it appears as though many non-profits and churches have almost no financial oversight or independent audits taking place. It's why you read periodically of the trusted church secretary embezzled money over the years, because no one was checking up on her.

Probably the most important thing in the OP is that this guy was considered a model citizen and once a Republican candidate. Why is it that you so rarely hear of Dems doing this sort of thing?

He flat out stole that money. This is theft, fraud, and probably tax evasion. The man belongs in jail for this.

Why is he not in jail?

Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan.

some of their theft is technically legal but highly unethical. For the most part you don't get that rich without screwing someone over big time.

Of course he'll repent and run to Jesus and everything will be OK, because... religion.

Ironically enough, it's also the town where "Peyton Place" was filmed decades ago.

"I am a scorpion. It is my nature to sting. You knew I was a scorpion when you took me on your back."

before he kicks off or does himself.

Maybe he could have ramped up the mean a little bit to achieve typical.

That's the way these guys think. Accepting charity means you are a loser.

Money spent supporting losers is wasted.

Isn't that what Fox News says?

It's an especially vicious cycle if he's got a gambling problem.

How can I be losing??? I'm not a loser!

Or maybe he's simply a crook.