Over $400K stolen from Greenwood MFRC

[dapaterson]

Apparently the Greenwood MFRC lost over $400,000 to fraud by their former business manager over a thirteen year period.  Karen Byers was sentenced to over three years in jail earlier this month.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/karen-lorraine-byers-sentenced-for-400k-military-resource-centre-fraud-1.3025138

http://www.kingscountynews.ca/News/Local/2015-04-08/article-4104424/BREAKING%3A-Federal-time-for-Harbourville-woman-who-defrauded-Greenwood-Military-Family-Resource-Centre/1

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[Tibbson]

According to other reports she had not only stolen money but she also diverted donations from the public and from corporations who intended the money to go towards the MFRC programs. 

 

[DAA]

About time they started to hand out the passes for the Crowbar Hotel in cases such as this.

3+ years for $400K and the last one who got caught was handed a "conditional sentence".

http://www.saultstar.com/2012/08/17/woman-sentenced-for-bilking-military-out-of-190000

 

[The Bread Guy]

Oopsie, continued ....

A former business manager who defrauded the Greenwood Military Family Resource Centre of more than $400,000 is under fresh investigation as the Canada Revenue Agency probes allegations she also forged charity tax receipts.

Karen Lorraine Byers was sentenced in April to three-and-a-half years in prison for fraud. Her husband, Gary Wayne Byers, was handed a suspended sentence and two years of probation for possession of property obtained by crime.

But the duo's legal woes may not end there.

They are now coming under scrutiny from tax investigators. Allegations spelled out in court documents say the couple falsely reported they donated more than $200,000 to the military resource centre over five years, gaining thousands of dollars in illegal tax refunds.

Last month, Canada Revenue Agency officers scoured Gary Byers's Coldbrook home, seizing credit card documents, banking information, donation receipts, a memory stick and a computer hard drive ....

 

[PMedMoe]

Oopsie, continued ....

Wow....they had their hands in several cookie jars, didn't they....

 

[Tibbson]

- a civil judgement for $250,000+ they agreed to pay when sued by the MFRC;
- jail time plus $409,000 in restitution from a criminal court;
- Revenue Canada on them for the alleged tax receipt issues noted in the article and for their personal taxes; and
- the police Proceeds of Crime unit with seizure orders for things obtained by crime.

Yep, I'd say they got slammed hard.  Good!