They Bought a Scoreboard That Never Existed - $164,000 Missing
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They Bought a Scoreboard That Never Existed - $164,000 Missing
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Fear that your community's goodwill can be weaponized: a professional plaque, a superintendent's real signature block, and $214,300 pledged to a scoreboard that was never ordered, never permitted, and never built-yet only $11.40 was recovered. Who convinced 31 donors to pay, and where did $164,000 disappear to?
In this episode, we walk through the chronology of how a fictitious nonprofit, fake vendor, and a single $47 rendering convinced community members to donate, and how the fraud unraveled when a retired birdwatcher found a plaque on a padlocked shed. What decisions allowed the scheme to run for months without being stopped?
Person: Jason Zimmerman
Date: 2015 (Zimmerman arrived in Calhoun County), March 2019 (McCarthy donation)
Location: Calhoun County, Dellwood-Calhoun athletic complex
Event: Laminated donor plaques bolted to an unused padlocked equipment shed between May and July 2019
Status: Final audit recovered $11.40 in restitution
- Total pledges solicited: $214,300 across 31 donors
- Individual major donation: $12,000 from Marilyn McCarthy in March 2019
- Cost of the single printed rendering used in pitches: $47 at a copy shop on Hartwell Avenue
- Nonprofit bank account opened: Hartwell Community Bank under "Dellwood Athletic Excellence Fund"
- Forensic auditor Amanda Underwood noted: "vendor is a pocket" about Tri-State Display Solutions
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