Nonprofit Fraud: Governors Association Did Not Monitor Its Own Money

by Gary Snyder

The Nicholasville (KY) Police Department have arrested and are investigating a Lexington man it says stole $274,000 in campaign-contribution checks intended for the Democratic Governors Association. 

According to a criminal complaint filed by police that the perpetrator “worked at a check processing company in Lexington (KY) where he received and recorded” campaign contributions. 

The complaint the offender allegedly “used his position to steal checks over a two-year period” (July 2010 to September 2012) and deposit them into his personal account at a Nicholasville bank. The complaint further read that an audit of the account discovered that the total sum of stolen campaign checks deposited into his account was in excess of $250,000.

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