Parents involved with a local little league in Union City are reeling after discovering nearly $30,000 was taken from their league fund. To boot, they're finding it difficult to bounce back.
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The league's former treasurer, Nancy Morgan, 40, is accused of embezzling the hefty sum over two years of managing league bank accounts, as KTVU reports.
Veronica Perez, who is the president of the league, became suspicious of dubious financial activity in August 2018, after she says Morgan wouldn't disclose how much money the league had earned in a fundraiser.
'What really precipitated this was the little league wanted to have the suspect to provide them with records of the bank accounts for some of the fundraisers they did — the major one was a fireworks sale,' Lt. Steve Mendez with Union City Police told SFGate. 'She kept postponing that, said she couldn't get that.'
When she did turn over the records, Mendez said, numbers didn't add up.
After the little league board called the bank and found some odd charges to the account, Perez went to the police department to report their findings.
An investigation lasted six months, but eventually, police arrested Morgan in March on charges of felony embezzlement and grand theft of personal property.
'We have to actually subpoena each record to individually figure out what accounts were used,' Mendez explained. 'Once we did, (it amounted to) approximately $30,000 ... It was more than initially was thought by the little league.'
When questioned by investigators, Morgan first denied allegations, saying the league's bank card had been stolen for three days; she later confessed to having used it for multiple purchases and vacation-related expenses, including a stay at a Reno resort, a rental car, and various Amazon orders.
The loss of money has proven difficult to overcome for the league.
'They were devastated,' Mendez says of the league. 'They're a nonprofit; they work hard during their fundraisers. It's little kids out there helping their parents make money for uniforms and fields and rentals.'
One of those rentals, KTVU reported, is a storage unit containing 60 years worth of uniforms, equipment and historic championship banners. After missing payments due to this ordeal, the league attempted to raise money to cover the cost. The unit was nevertheless auctioned off in December, before the league could gather the money.
'Whoever purchased the storage unit at auction,' Perez told KTVU, 'the banners is what we're looking for the most ... those have sentimental value.'
There's now a triple-check system in place for purchases, but the team has a long way to go to recoup funds. As it stands now, they're $15,000 in debt.
But as Mendez said, they took the right first step: 'They did the right thing and sought help.'
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Alyssa Pereira is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at apereira@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @alyspereira.