In a message dated 2/7/02 8:25:15 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
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> An ousted Easter Seals executive gambled away money she stole from the
> charity for disabled people, a Polk County sheriff's official said
> Wednesday.
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> Martha Wittkowski was arrested Wednesday on charges she stole almost
> $231,000 from the group. Authorities said she confessed, and her lawyer said
> she probably would plead guilty.
>
> Wittkowski admitted having a gambling problem and told investigators she
> invented at least one bogus company, falsified invoices and secretly paid
> herself a bonus while siphoning money from the nonprofit agency, said Chief
> Deputy Sheriff Bill Vaughn.
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> Easter Seals employees in November discovered money missing from a $2.9
> million capital fund being used for improvements at Camp Sunnyside north of
> Des Moines and the organization's offices on 30th Street.
>
> Wittkowski was fired following an internal audit in January. She was being
> paid $116,667 a year at the time.
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> Polk County Attorney John Sarcone said Wittkowski's case is among numerous
> incidences of white-collar crime in the past three to four years that can be
> attributed to gambling or drug addictions. "My guess is that some of it is
> going unreported because people are embarrassed by it," he said.
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Are we still sure that we want people who are substance abusers and addicts
on the ADA?

How many people with physical, developmental, cognative or sensory
disabilites have stole over $200,000USD because of their "disabilities"?

These addicts are not disabled, often prey on the disabled and case people to
not want to enforce or abide by the ADA

Richard Hudson


Richard Hudson