[NJ] The former executive director of a former Head Start program in Jersey City Tuesday admitted that he diverted more than $250,000 from programs for underprivileged children and used the money for personal expenses, including a Maserati and a mink coat, prosecutors said.
Robert E. Mays, 38, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in federal court to one count of wire fraud.
| One count? ONE? Criminy, what did he trade the federal prosecutors in that plea bargain? |
According to court papers charging him, Mays in 2013 forged records and duped employees at the Jersey City Child Development Centers into believing that its board of directors had raised his salary 61 percent to $155,000 after acting as executive director for only two months.
Mays was fired in May of 2014, after the board learned of the salary boost, court records say.
Mays also admitted that he withdrew cash from the agency's account in part to pay for the 2007 Maserati, which would have cost more than $100,000 on the market at the time. |
A well worn playbook read by tyrants and despots everywhere.