{"id":67185,"date":"2026-02-24T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/former-california-charity-ceo-charged-with-stealing-1-2m-in-public-funds\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:55:30","slug":"former-california-charity-ceo-charged-with-stealing-1-2m-in-public-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/former-california-charity-ceo-charged-with-stealing-1-2m-in-public-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Former California charity CEO charged with stealing $1.2m in public funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwendolyn Westbrook, ex-CEO of a San Francisco homeless non-profit, is accused of using public funds for personal use<\/p>\n<p>The former CEO of a San Francisco homeless services charity will be arraigned on Tuesday on nine felony charges after prosecutors said she stole more than $1.2m in public funds meant to keep people off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Gwendolyn Westbrook, 71, raided the accounts of the United Council for Human Services while she had \u201cnear-exclusive financial control\u201d over the non-profit serving homeless and low-income people, according to a statement on Monday from the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/san-francisco-homeless-charity-ceo-theft\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwendolyn Westbrook, ex-CEO of a San Francisco homeless non-profit, is accused of using public funds for personal use The former CEO of a San Francisco homeless services charity will be arraigned on Tuesday on nine felony charges after prosecutors said she stole more than $1.2m in public funds meant to keep people off the streets. &#8230; <a title=\"Former California charity CEO charged with stealing $1.2m in public funds\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/former-california-charity-ceo-charged-with-stealing-1-2m-in-public-funds\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former California charity CEO charged with stealing $1.2m in public funds\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}