2 women sentenced for stealing from Grove City Library; WKBN, December 18, 2025

 Patty Coller, WKBN; 2 women sentenced for stealing from Grove City Library

"Two women who were charged and convicted separately for stealing from the Grove City Library were sentenced in Mercer County Common Pleas Court. 

Amy Gallagher, the former director, was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay restitution of $6,680...

In Meghann Rigney’s case, she pleaded guilty to theft by unlawful taking in connection with charges that were filed in October over unauthorized withdrawals from a bank account held by the Grove City Friends of the Library. It was determined that $9,450 in unauthorized electronic payments were made between March and July 2025, according to the criminal complaint.

Rigney was the former president of the Grove City Friends of the Library."

The Trusted Grown-Ups Who Steal Millions From Youth Sports; New York Times, 7/7/16

Bill Pennington, New York Times; The Trusted Grown-Ups Who Steal Millions From Youth Sports:

"A county court judge had ordered Mr. Farley to repent publicly to club members as part of his guilty plea, and so there he stood, in front of a throng of children sitting cross-legged on a grassy ball field waiting to play. The club’s leaders were so fearful that an irate parent might charge or assault Mr. Farley that they hired security to maintain order...

Yet with the growth and development has come a long list of embezzlement and other corruption cases unfolding in a void of oversight and regulation and capitalizing on community trust.

Across the country, people who volunteered as treasurers and other officers for Little Leagues and sports clubs have been prosecuted for pilfering gobs of money from the coffers: $220,000 in Washington, $431,000 in Minnesota, $560,000 in New Jersey, and so on, according to law enforcement authorities, league officials, experts on nonprofit organizations and news reports."