Windsor housing non-profit director fired after allegations of $500k in unauthorized pay hikes for family
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Standing inside her non-profit managed rental unit in central Windsor, Ont., Sue Pare points to a crack in her kitchen floor she can’t get fixed.
“I put in a work order and didn’t hear anything for a while,” said Pare.
That order went in four years ago, according to Pare, who shares her wheelchair accessible unit with her daughter who lives with cerebral palsy.
Pare has been here 35 years and remembers prompt repairs in the past.
“They were very on top of maintaining the buildings. The grounds were kept really nice,” she said.
“Then it got to be, ‘We have no money to fix it right now.'”
While Pare sought a fix for her kitchen floor, the Labour Sponsored Community Development Group (LSCDG), which manages her affordable housing unit and hundreds of others, was looking to solve its own financial issues.
Court documents filed by LSCDG obtained by CBC News show accusations of financial misconduct totalling $3 million by the organization's executive director Anna Angelidis and two administrators she supervised: her sons Jim and Danny.
“We had received some information that we thought incredulous at first,” said Dino Chiodo, who chairs the LSCDG board of directors.
“But as we started to look into it and do our own investigation, we started to realize that things weren't necessarily adding up.”
The investigation claims there were unauthorized pay hikes for the family totalling half a million dollars over four years, $1.7 million in payments to a family member's company for work not required or completed, and projects charged to the non-profit that were completed at their family homes.
The organization also claims Anna paid vendors $1.4 million spread across 479 cheques that were pre-stamped by former board member Gary Parent after he died last May.
Last October, the LSCDG board unanimously agreed during an emergency meeting to fire all three members of the Angelidis family.
In December last year, each fired family member filed a wrongful dismissal suit seeking combined damages of at least $735,000.
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