The spending included $6,131 on a family dinner at Momofuku Ko, an upscale, two-star Michelin restaurant in New York City, according to the plea agreement.
The ex-director of a shuttered Los Angeles anti-poverty nonprofit, and a well-known Democrat fundraiser pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling money from the nonprofit, which received federal funding,
Slingerland spent roughly $71,000 the organization's funds on lavish dinners and other personal expenses. The organization received more than $281 million in federal grants from 2009 to 2019, the year Slingerland was ousted as its executive director, a role he held since 1996. The nonprofit closed in 2019. Federal grants constituted the bulk of the Youth Policy Institute's funding,
Slingerland also misspent part of a $1.5 million federal grant his organization received to put toward a job opportunity program for young adults who had had run-ins with the criminal justice system, according to the plea agreement.$201,466 to make payments on Youth Policy Institute’s credit cards, which included charges incurred by Slingerland.
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