{"id":55006,"date":"2023-12-12T20:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T04:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55006"},"modified":"2023-12-12T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:18:14","slug":"55006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55006","title":{"rendered":"Former CEO of Los Angeles Anti-Poverty Program Sent to Prison for Embezzling Money from the Nonprofit Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1057 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Justice-Depart.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The former president and CEO of a Los Angeles-based anti-poverty nonprofit agency was sentenced Tuesday to six<b>\u00a0<\/b>months in federal prison for embezzling money from the nonprofit for his benefit, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Howard Dixon Slingerland also failed to report these funds on his tax returns and intentionally misapplied more than $600,000 in grant money to pay for unauthorized expenses, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee sentenced\u00a0 Slingerland, 54, of Studio City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The judge also ordered him to serve six months of home confinement, pay a fine of $10,000, pay $750,470 in restitution, and serve 200 hours of community service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Slingerland pleaded guilty on March 8 to one count of conversion and intentional misapplication of funds from an organization receiving federal money and one count of subscribing to a false federal income tax return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former Democrat fundraiser pleads guilty to embezzling money from\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COMddb0FXlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">From 1996 until he was fired in September 2019, Slingerland led the Youth Policy Institute Inc. (YPI), a Hollywood-based nonprofit agency that worked to eradicate poverty, eventually becoming president and CEO. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1073 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/criminal_justice_jurisprudence-2-274x173.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>YPI operates in some of the highest-needs neighborhoods in Los Angeles, running programs to support youth education, development, safety, job training, and health and wellness. As the head of YPI, Slingerland had check-signing authority over YPI\u2019s bank accounts and was the personal guarantor of YPI\u2019s credit card.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;Entrusted with the management of a large non-profit organization on which many community members had come to depend, [Slingerland] ignored the rules and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">used the organization\u2019s money to pay for his expenses, some of which were extravagant, even profligate,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> In November 2019, two months after Slingerland was fired, YPI declared bankruptcy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14523 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Courtroom-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"177\" \/>From January 2015 to February 2019, Slingerland caused at least $71,533 of YPI funds to be spent on unauthorized expenditures, including Slingerland\u2019s personal property tax bill that exceeded $14,000; a Slingerland family dinner at an upscale New York City restaurant costing more than $6,000; private tutoring for a family member costing nearly $11,000; and a home computer and software valued at nearly $2,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Additionally, Slingerland caused YPI to improperly use the federal grant funds it had received through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, run by the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The grant was awarded to support a YPI education and training program designed to prepare young adults in Los Angeles for jobs in growing industries such as construction, customer service, food preparation, and service. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Instead, in July 2019, Slingerland caused approximately $401,561 of these funds to be used for the unauthorized payment of YPI payroll. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">That same month, he caused another approximately $201,466 of the federal grant money to be illegally used to pay off YPI\u2019s credit card bill, including expenses Slingerland had incurred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Slingerland underreported on his federal income tax returns more than $100,000 annually for the tax years 2015 through 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9775810699MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Slingerland did not report the money he obtained from YPI through embezzlement or the value of benefits he received from YPI, including retirement plan contributions, a housing allowance,, and a vehicle allowance. 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