NARAL NY director admits to felony theft; Planned Parenthood Virginia official caught stealing wine


Things that make you go, hmmm.

A former president of a prominent abortion-rights group’s New York chapter admitted Wednesday she got the organization to pay for thousands of dollars in a summer house rental, child care, clothes and other personal plums by passing them off as business expenses.

Former NARAL Pro-Choice New York leader Kelli Conlin pleaded guilty to falsifying business records, a felony. Her case will be closed without jail time or probation if she pays more than $75,000 in restitution.
David Nova, vice president of Planned Parenthood Health Systems in Roanoke, was charged earlier this year with three counts of petit larceny. The charges stem from bottles of wine Nova took through a self-checkout line at the Cave Spring Kroger. The incidents occurred on two separate dates in January, according to online court records.

As part of an agreement reached in Roanoke County General District Court last week, Nova was not convicted. The case was continued for a year, with the understanding the charges will be dismissed after Nova completes his jail time and avoids further charges.
Using her NARAL checkbook, Katherine Venskus siphoned off $12,939 from the organization over the next several months, according to the criminal complaint. She was charged with felony theft and forgery in April 2002 in Dane County Circuit Court and pleaded no contest to the theft charge in August of that year, with prosecutors dropping the forgery charge.

1 comment:

Siarlys Jenkins said...

It would be cruel to say "sounds like Planned Parenthood is run on principals similar to many Roman Catholic parishes." There are misdeeds done by responsible personnel for the highest causes.

What I wonder is, does a sincerely pro-life person disapprove of money that might have funded abortions being siphoned off for the personal use of administrators? Is this a crime, or a righteous act in disguise?