Former PTO President sentenced for embezzlement in California

FROM KLIV.COM -

Sentencing has been handed down to the former President of the Trace Elementary School's Parent-Teacher Organization on charges of embezzlement. It will be three years probation, with three months of community service and three months of electronic monitoring that 40-year-old Vanessa Reyes will have to serve as part of a plea agreement.




She had taken more than $20,000 from the PTO to make personal purchases. As part of the plea agreement, she paid back the money she owed, plus interest and a five-thousand dollar donation to the school.



Another woman arrested with Reyes, Anne Zingale, the former treasurer of the PTO has her next court date scheduled for July 27th. She was accused of embezzling 28-thousand dollars.