Pizza And Shoes, Shoes And Pizza

Posted by Adam Kuban, July 8, 2004 at 4:16 PM

From a New York Times story on the financial meltdown of the Legal Aid Society. Headline: How a Lax Eye on Money Pushed Legal Aid to the Brink:

Late last summer, an executive at the Legal Aid Society's headquarters in Lower Manhattan answered an anonymous call from a pay phone somewhere in the city. The caller, a woman who seemed knowledgeable about the organization's internal affairs, claimed that the agency's top financial officer had gone on a personal spending spree, charging tens of thousands of dollars to a Legal Aid credit card.

According to agency executives who recounted the events, the caller was referring to Theresa deLeon, the chief financial officer and a trusted veteran at Legal Aid, an organization that has represented indigent defendants in New York City for 128 years. The society opened an internal investigation and confirmed credit card charges that added up to more than $30,000, spent on things like pizza and shoes. Ms. deLeon later paid back the money and resigned.

$30,000. Heh. That's one pizza-lovin' broad with a mean shoe game.

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