{"id":5145,"date":"2011-12-02T06:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2011-12-02T10:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T15:13:13","slug":"morning-read-former-comlinks-ceo-admits-grand-larceny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/02\/morning-read-former-comlinks-ceo-admits-grand-larceny\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Former ComLinks CEO admits grand larceny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of ComLinks &#8212; the Malone-based regional non-profit &#8212; has admitted to misspending appxorimatly $1,500, according to a report in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1094290902\/Former-ComLinks-director-admits-theft\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under a plea agreement, Reich will avoid jail time.\u00a0 In an interview with the newspaper, she described the criminal proceeding as harrowing<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m crushed that after 20 years of service and helping people &#8230;.&#8221;  Her voice was lost as she began to cry. &#8220;I did good work. People forget  that. I did a good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorney Andrew Safranco stepped forward to her aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been a witch hunt from the onset,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She did a lot of  good for Franklin County and was fired from her job and was facing  jail. She&#8217;s leaving the county and will take steps to get on with her  life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reich told the Press-Republican that she plans to relocate to Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of ComLinks &#8212; the Malone-based regional non-profit &#8212; has admitted to misspending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}