Well, I don’t think the ex-boss’s attempt at getting the current board members removed (see previous post) is going to be successful after what happened at last night’s board meeting! (Man, I wish I could’ve gone! Unfortunately, I had C class to attend...)

The meeting apparently had some revelations which, while not shocking to me at this point, were pretty shocking to most of the general public. Apparently, in addition to the tax fraud and numerous unpaid bills that were known about, the ex-boss had opened an account in the business’s name at a local home improvement center, and had spent thousands of dollars on things which NEVER came to the ex-job! (You know, fancy door knobs and expensive bathroom fixtures, the sort of thing that not only didn’t come to the ex-job, but which never would be purchased by a place like that.) That’s definitive proof that she was stealing… and the board announced that they are going to file criminal charges against her! (Apparently they’d wanted to make sure that they had an actual criminal case, not just a case of incompetence, before they involved the police.) Meanwhile, the forensic accountant they’ve hired is still investigating the bank account to determine where and to whom funds went, and they’re still trying to locate all of the accounts which had been opened in the name of the ex-job! Additionally, the ex-boss had been paying her husband several hundred dollars a week for “maintenance” – although he maybe did maintenance work up there once every other month… and she had been paying her daughter several hundred dollars a week for “help” she was allegedly providing from out of state! (Meanwhile, I know via the boyfriend that the ex-boss’s husband was on food stamps – despite the large salary his wife was bringing in, and despite the fact that he was getting paid several hundred dollars a week, albeit under the table!)

I am thrilled that the board has finally gone public with all of this, and that people in our local community and the national non-profit community in this sector can finally know the truth about what a terrible person the ex-boss is. The joy is, of course, thoroughly tempered by the knowledge that all this money was stolen from a cause that I care deeply about. So much suffering could have been alleviated if the ex-job had had the funds which she embezzled. Additionally, I know that several of my former coworkers – very hard-working people with families to support – had asked for raises several times, and had been told that there just wasn’t enough money. And unfortunately, since the board wants to get the place out of debt ASAP, I doubt raises are in their near future :-(

One of the newspaper reporters who was at the meeting (author of the article I mentioned in my previous post) wants to speak to me. (The Spy was at the meeting and he gave her my number. He’s also the reason why I know what happened there!) I figured I should run it past the board first, as they did ask me to keep this confidential… although since they’ve gone public, I don’t know what the problem would be. Unfortunately, having my name in the paper would just anger the ex-boss and her psychotic family who like to threaten me with bodily harm and dead pets (NPH!). So I bought some time by telling the reporter I had to run it past the board while I decide if I should talk to her or not. Thoughts?