This DAP highlights – ODNI report – Uyghur Genocide and Concentrated Reeducation Camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China / Gate 15’s Weekly Security Sprint EP 89 - Post election texts, terror arrests and threats, and compromised emails / USCIRF hearing – Addressing Entities of Particular Concern: Non-State Actors and Egregious Violations of Religious Freedom. DAP also has More Faith-Based Stories and Select All-Hazard Stories. These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 11 March 2024
Faith-Based Security Headlines
These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.
Church administrator convicted, faces 20 years in prison for embezzlement scheme
The Christian Post reports:
A former administrator and wife of a former police chief has been convicted of stealing over $360,000 from a northern California church through a multi-year embezzlement scheme impacting the church’s youth ministry and food pantry.
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According to prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, Easton used multiple credit cards affiliated with St. Andrew Presbyterian Church in Yuba City to engage in a five-year embezzlement scheme from 2013 to 2018.
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Easton is also accused of transferring money directly from the church’s bank accounts to her own personal account, paying the balance of her personal credit card and paying her cell phone provider for her personal bills and new phones.
Additionally, the former church employee stole money from the church by writing checks to others to cover their personal expenses and by writing checks to herself, forging the signatures of the church’s treasurer and head volunteer of the church’s food pantry.
Analyst Comments:
Smart Church Management published 10 Practices That Safeguard Your Church Against Embezzlement. The 2019 article provides guidance that is still relevant to safeguarding Faith-Based Organizations (FBO) from embezzlement.
Smart Church Management cites Church Mutual to provide the following fraud statistics:
- Most frauds last 18 months before being caught
- The average tenure of the perpetrator is over eight years
- 87% have never been charged with fraud or theft before
- More frauds are caught by a tip (40%) than any other means
Smart Church Management details the following practices to safeguard FBOs against embezzlement:
- Policy and Procedures
- Training
- Audits
- Rotation
- Safes
- Two-Person Rule
- Background/Credit Checks
- Watch for Warning Signs
- Supervision/Management
- Act on Suspicion
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