THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, May 16, 1995 TAG: 9505160293
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PERRY PARKS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
James Graham Foreman Jr., charged last week with embezzling funds from the Albemarle Area United Way, surrendered to Elizabeth City police late Monday morning.
Foreman, 31, of Rivershore Road, was escorted into police offices by his attorney, H.P. Williams, about 11:30 a.m.
Foreman was released about 4:45 p.m. after his sister put up a home in Kill Devil Hills to meet a $46,000 secured bond, police and clerk of court officials said.
Neither Foreman nor Williams would comment.
Foreman, who was executive director of the local United Way for 2 1/2 years, was indicted May 8 on 23 counts each of embezzlement and of malfeasance by a corporate agent.
The embezzlement counts carry 10-year maximum sentences. The maximum penalty for the malfeasance charges is 15 years each.
Foreman resigned from the job, which paid $14,500 annually, in February. He had been suspended without pay after United Way officials discovered a suspicious second version of the agency's annual financial report.
An independent audit revealed about $102,000 in missing United Way funds and prompted the agency to withhold quarterly allotments to its 20 member agencies in seven northeastern counties this spring.
A civil lawsuit pending against Foreman accuses him of setting up an unauthorized bank account, from which he allegedly diverted United Way funds for his own use. ILLUSTRATION: [Color Photo]
DREW C. WILSON
Staff
Attorney H.P. Williams, left, accompanied James Graham Foreman Jr.,
who is charged with embezzling from the United Way. Foreman turned
himself in but was released on bond later in the day.
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