Kentucky resident Charles Davis has been discovered responsible of defrauding two native arts organisations, the ArtWorks Group Arts Schooling Heart in Jamestown and Russell County Arts Council (RCAC) in Russell Springs. By his place as a treasurer between 2017 and 2020, Davis was in a position to wire greater than $340,000 from the non-profit organisations to non-public bank card and financial institution accounts. Final week, a district courtroom sentenced Davis to restitute all funds and serve greater than two years in jail for the crimes.
The case was investigated by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) because of Davis’s wire switch of arts organisation funds to bank card and PayPal accounts throughout state traces. Court docket paperwork charging Davis with fraud point out his transfers of funds from ArtWorks started in 2017, whereas transfers from Russell County Arts Council and interstate wire transfers started in 2019. Including up all situations of theft between 2017 and 2020, Davis was discovered to have stolen $116,688.57 from RCAC, and $224,142.79 from ArtWorks.
Following the invention of his fraud, Davis launched into 4 separate cruises outdoors of america, visiting Mexico, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, based on the Lexington Herald-Chief. Davis was apprehended by the FBI as he disembarked from a Carnival cruise ship in 2022.
Following a advice that he stay on probation for 5 years to raised pay restitution, prosecutor Madison Sewell pushed as an alternative for jail time, saying Davis “had proven no regret and made no effort to repay the thefts regardless of his six-figure wage”. Davis has since pleaded responsible and been sentenced to 2 years and three months of jail, adopted by three years of supervised launch.
Each the organisations Russell defrauded present training and neighborhood assets for his or her native communities, specializing in companies for kids in addition to programmes for younger artists.
