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In June, Jacquelyn Allen-MacGregor, 47, a 20-year executive with United Way in East Lansing, Mich., was remorseful after being sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than $2 million from the agency to buy show horses; said MacGregor, “I do believe that I’m obsessed with horses.”
An independent investigation revealed in August that Mr. Oral Suer, the former CEO of United Way of the Washington, D.C., area, had taken $1.5 million in improper payments during his tenure; among the alleged improprieties was that Suer made several annual gifts to United Way in his own name but then collected bogus expenses from the organization to cover the donations.
In McNairy County, Tenn., in August, father Steven Joseph Yurick, 33, was convicted of producing child pornography on the Web site he runs in order to promote the modeling career of his 13-year-old daughter; authorities found no explicitly erotic photos on the site, and the girl said she enthusiastically posed wearing scanty clothing because she so earnestly wants to be a fashion model.
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