Tax, Legal & Compliance

Proving there are no depths to which humanity will not descend for a couple bucks, a California woman has been charged with stealing $89,000 from an elementary school PTA, her daughter's Girl Scout troop and her son's Little League baseball team. Prosecutors on Friday charged Veronica Padarez, 37, with nine counts of felony grand theft by embezzlement, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune...

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara now has New York Mayor Bill de Blasio in his crosshairs—investigating de Blasio's campaign fundraising activities as part of a widening probe into New York Police Department corruption, sources said last week. The feds are looking at how the mayor solicits campaign cash from members of the real-estate industry—and the fundraising…

A nonprofit leader is suing her board of directors after being badly burned in an attack that aimed to cover up an internal embezzlement....

Title I of the Americans with 
Disabilities Act (ADA) as amended prohibits employment discrimination by all employers—
including local government employers—with 15 or more employees. The following sections—the application, the interview and landing the job—will provide you with information about the details of Title I and how it may apply to hiring practices at your organization or agency...

The executive director of a New York nonprofit was attacked with caustic liquid in an attempt to cover up a $750,000 embezzlement scheme, a newly unsealed indictment revealed. Rev. D. Alexandra Dyer, head of Healing Arts Initiative, was walking to her car after work when a man holding a cup of drain cleaner allegedly approached her and flung the liquid at her. The attack left serious burns on Dyer's face and eyes. Authorities this week announced they made three arrests in connection with the crime...

It is Friday, Feb. 19, and Michael Thatcher sits before hundreds of nonprofit leaders, fundraisers and marketers at the DMANF Washington Nonprofit Conference, ready for questioning. To say that the former Microsoft official and current president and CEO of Charity Navigator has entered the lion’s den would be inaccurate. He has thrown himself in, walked up to the biggest lion he could find, and jumped into its open jaws. The head of the nonprofit sector’s most controversial organization facing his harshest critics...

It’s not every day that Yale University gets an offer like this: Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) invited the 315-year-old Ivy League institution to move to the Sunshine State. The Connecticut legislature has a proposal to impose a tax on some investment profits from the university’s $26.5 billion endowment, and Scott seized on the opportunity…

General Electric Co. (GE) plans to donate $50 million over the next five years to Boston and the surrounding area. The money comes as GE gets set to move its global headquarters and 800 employees to the South Boston Seaport. But there are critics. And they charge the city and state are giving GE a…

In February 2015, Robert Bruce, a 34-year-old from Tennessee, was indicted by a grand jury on six federal wire fraud charges related to the charity he created to honor the victims of December 2012’s Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Newtown, Conn. Now, Bruce has agreed to plead guilty, having reached a plea deal with the U.S. attorney’s office, The Associated Press reported...

In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the leader of various sham cancer nonprofits has agreed to shut down his organizations in what the agency has called the largest joint enforcement action against charity fraud...