Regarding Heather Darry - in my opinion, anyone who steals from a church or a charity should receive a long jail sentence. The money in those institutions is raised from people who donate it for doing good works. Stealing it is egregiously wrong. I am also amazed at what must be a lackadaisical approach to accounting procedures and inter…
Regarding Heather Darry - in my opinion, anyone who steals from a church or a charity should receive a long jail sentence. The money in those institutions is raised from people who donate it for doing good works. Stealing it is egregiously wrong. I am also amazed at what must be a lackadaisical approach to accounting procedures and internal controls that allowed her to steal so much in such a short time.
If the new administration knocks down the separation of church and state, maybe dioceses and parishes become subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. From that perspective, the problem has been solved for 22years and church financial controls need to enter the 21st century.
Regarding Heather Darry - in my opinion, anyone who steals from a church or a charity should receive a long jail sentence. The money in those institutions is raised from people who donate it for doing good works. Stealing it is egregiously wrong. I am also amazed at what must be a lackadaisical approach to accounting procedures and internal controls that allowed her to steal so much in such a short time.
If the new administration knocks down the separation of church and state, maybe dioceses and parishes become subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. From that perspective, the problem has been solved for 22years and church financial controls need to enter the 21st century.
SOX applies to public companies, so the Church would need to conduct an IPO first...
By the way, there is a Baltimore connection -- the late Senator Sarbanes is a Baltimore native who worshipped at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral there.
The financial controls mandated by SOx are organized common sense that could be applied to any high-revenue organization like dioceses and parishes.