Or maybe things will head $outh:
"North Reading booster club’s president faces charge of theft" by Kiera Blessing | Globe Correspondent October 22, 2014
The president of the North Reading Athletic Booster Club, a former elected town official, has been arrested and charged with allegedly stealing more than $10,000 from the organization, authorities said.
John Norton, 68, had solicited donations from businesses and residents for the club, but allegedly kept the proceeds for himself, North Reading police said in a statement. Norton previously served on the town’s School Committee and Planning Commission, said Town Clerk Barbara Stats.
“This is a case in which we allege that this well-known member of our community built himself up to be a trusted helper, until reality showed him to be little more than a fraud,” said Police Chief Michael P. Murphy.
There is a le$$on to be learned there.
Authorities began investigating Norton’s position with the booster club in May, when he sent the Police Department a personal check to pay for detail officers who provided security at a high school basketball tournament in December.
During the investigation, police found that the club had never filed the required papers with the attorney general’s office, and that Norton was the only officer of the club with access to its bank accounts.
He allegedly stole $10,700 from the club’s accounts between December and June, primarily by withdrawing cash from the accounts using ATMs and by writing checks from the club made out to “cash.”
Norton’s lawyer, George F. Ohlson Jr., declined to comment on the case.
Norton pleaded not guilty to one count of larceny of property over $250 by embezzlement Wednesday in Woburn District Court. He was being held on $1,000 bail, and ordered not to make any financial transactions for the booster club except to sign over control of the funds.
Norton is due back in court for a pretrial hearing Nov. 14.
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