Public Corruption - Gary Felasco

Gary Felasco

Action Date: September 29, 2005
Location: New Castle, PA

On September 29, 2005, Gary Felasco, the treasurer of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, was ordered to stand trial on charges he pocketed about $47,000 in tax payments. Felasco was charged with theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received, embezzlement, misapplication of entrusted property and violating the state's ethics act. Felasco allegedly diverted tax money to his personal use and hid the thefts by preventing delinquent property-tax notices from being sent to the people whose payments he stole. The state Attorney General's Office said Felasco used some of the money to pay his own delinquent taxes, buy a van and rent hotel rooms in a neighboring township where authorities have said they received complaints about a sex club Felasco allegedly helped organize.

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