A year ago, Jack LaBounty was riding high. He was national director of environment of a charity called the land part of Florida. Finance, a charity ride from Saint-Petersburg. It was across the country, radiation protection and riding in limousines.Then, last fall, LaBounty suddenly resigned and left the country, ducking the issues council, his lawyer, his auditing body, and finally the police.
On Friday, the State Consumer questions from investigators arrested 65 years LaBounty, the shipper Grand Theft misspending and money donated. It was Pinellas County Jail. Caution was $ 20,000.
She said it obtained a corporate credit card “fraudulent” and to strike at any stolen, he uses almost $ 50000 have been donated to environmental causes.
“He spent in restaurants, limousine service, Clubbing, this sort of thing,” said Lou Leinhauser, vice-chief of repression for the State Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, regulates charities, Florida.
LaBounty hidden its expenses by creating false operating expenses, while all with money donated to land part to pay by credit card charges, Stefan Agent Blue determined during an investigation of five months.
LaBounty arrest marks a low point from the earth of Florida, which brings together thousands of dollars of the total wages by the State and the list of salary deductions, particularly by the federal government and employees. It distributes money to organizations such as Friends of the Everglades of Florida and Audubon.
Although the charity has an office on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, nobody sits on the desktop works or mobile phones.
Earth Action, the national organization of the state has suspended partners, their Web site and all closed, but its modus operandi, “said Earth in collaboration with the chairmen national Kalman stone. He said a review was complete on ice pending the outcome of the investigation.
“We’re still trying to verify where everything is gone,” said the action of the land of Florida Treasurer Diane Hines. She said she and others “are not safe, what is our future “.