Accountant Charged With Stealing From Harvard Student Group
July 8, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
A former accountant for a student religious group at Harvard University has been charged with stealing more than three-quarters of a million dollars from the organization, reports Bloomberg.
Staffers at Harvard Hillel, a nonprofit Jewish student group, allege that William O’Brien diverted some $780,000 from the organization into a private account and used it to purchase sports tickets and travel, according to a statement by prosecutors.
A grand jury in Massachusetts’s Middlesex County indicted Mr. O’Brien on counts of larceny, forgery, and failing to file tax returns. Mr. O’Brien was a contract employee of InSource Services. A representative of the Wellesley, Mass., company refused to comment.
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