Thatcher131 Wikipedia wrote:
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/03/2008, Alec Conroy alecmconroy@gmail.com wrote:
The bigger problem are the allegations mentioned in the article
about
use of foundation funds. Three specific claims are made: -Jimbo tried to expense a $300+ bottle of wine -Jimbo tried to expense a massage parlor visit -Wikimedia foundation took away Jimbo's credit card.
I don't see the big deal here. Employees are entitled to fill in expenses forms and their employers are permitted to say "Sorry Jimmy, that's just outrageous".
Intentionally submitting a receipt to a non-profit charity which one knows is unacceptable is unethical at best. However, "intentionally" and "knows" are two key parts to that sentence which have not been proven - in fact, the entire incident has merely been alleged.
Grrr. The allegation is that he used a Foundation credit card and did not submit *any* receipts until forced by the auditors to do so. As part of the audit process, he repaid $7000. What would have happened if the auditors had not asked for the receipts?
That's incorrect. We have been requesting receipts from ALL board members from the very beginning. Michael (treasurer and acting accountant at that time) was extremely careful with that regards, and submitted updates on receivables. The receipts were requested by the treasurer, not by the auditors. Quite obviously though, doing the audit pushed us to clean any pending submission. Which is, in a sense, the main interest of an audit actually.
Your comment also neglects a key bit of context - that we are talking
about a non-profit charity. A for-profit employer is legally permitted to reimburse just about anyone for just about anything. A non-profit charity is not.
Precisely. It's only one of those "Puritan" things because it is a non-profit organization. See [[William Aramony]] and [[Oral Suer]]. It is small potatoes in comparison, and was apparently stopped, but it is an indication that the Foundation did not exercise proper stewardship over its finances until recently.
Unless you can bring proofs that we did not exercise proper stewardship, I would hope that you will not claim as a fact that we did not.
Ant
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