They Drowned the Donors' Names - How $230K Vanished in Gideon
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They Drowned the Donors' Names - How $230K Vanished in Gideon
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Trust turned to shock when a creek yielded fourteen pristine bronze plaques engraved with donor names - each deliberately dropped from a bridge - and the Gideon Memorial Fund’s bank account showed just $11. How did $230,000 disappear into administrative fees and equipment purchases while a small town believed it was caring for its own, and why were those names sunk to silence?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the fund’s incorporation through the discovery in Sycamore Fork, tracing the actions that left donors baffled and one auditor following a paper trail to missing funds. What did a contractor-turned-treasurer do with hundreds of thousands entrusted to a community fund, and why were the donor plaques cast and then discarded?
Person: Larry Ford
Person: Jeffrey Adams
Person: Philip Carter
Date: April 9, 2019
Event: Fourteen bronze donor plaques found in Sycamore Fork
- The fund reported a balance of $247,000 at the end of 2017.
- Approximately $230,000 was withdrawn by Larry Ford by that same date.
- The fund account held $11 on December 14, 2018, when Ford received a certified letter from donor Philip Carter.
- Ford ordered fourteen bronze plaques in late November 2018 costing $4,080.
- Philip Carter had donated $2,000 and first emailed for financial statements in September 2018, sending a certified letter by December.
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