A former Goodwill regional CEO is accused of taking large sums of money from the organization.
According to a news release issued Thursday by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, Richard Alan Abrusci, 45, was arrested and charged with nine counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and three counts of monetary transactions with proceeds of specified unlawful activity.
Abrusci stole $1.4 million by funneling funds to a bogus business that he controlled, according to the release.
“From 2016 through 2021, Abrusci fraudulently caused the non-profit organization and one of its subsidiaries to pay approximately $1.4 million to Resolution Arrangement Services (RAS),” the release said.
“RAS consisted of nothing more than a fictitious business name that Abrusci registered in 2008 and a bank account that he opened the same year,” it continued.
“Abrusci caused the fraudulent payments into the RAS bank account that he controlled by using various false documents, including invoices and purchase orders.”
According to court records, Abrusci began working for a nonprofit that operates a “chain of retail stores in California and Nevada” in 2014, rising to the position of chief operating officer in 2016 and president and CEO in 2018.
According to KCRA-TV in Sacramento, the nonprofit is Goodwill Sacramento Valley and Northern Nevada.
“In one instance, Abrusci used a forged letter purporting to be from an attorney representing the non-profit organization to convince the organization’s CFO to pay RAS $55,000 under false pretenses related to a lawsuit,” the news release said.
“The payments to RAS were supposedly for information-technology services, helping to facilitate settlement of a lawsuit, and assisting the non-profit organization in running call centers for the State of California during the COVID-19 pandemic,” it said.
“In fact, RAS provided none of the services for which it billed the non-profit organization and its subsidiary.”
According to KCRA, the organization notified law authorities after internal audits discovered significant anomalies in their financial figures.
“Goodwill itself as an organization is based upon goodwill and this was a real breaking of the goodwill by this CEO,” Goodwill spokesman Sam Singer said in a statement.
“The allegations against him are serious,” he continued. “We urged the federal prosecutors to pursue him to the fullest extent of the law.”
Abrusci was released after pleading not guilty to all counts in court on Thursday. A status meeting is planned for February.
If found guilty of all charges, he faces up to 32 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines.
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