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Ex-Director Convicted Of Stealing Nearly $1M From Long Island Charity Ex-Director Convicted Of Stealing Nearly $1M From Long Island Charity
Ex-Director Convicted Of Stealing Nearly $1M From Long Island Charity The former Executive Director of a not-for-profit organization on Long Island has been convicted of embezzling nearly a million dollars from the charity to live a life of luxury. Wafa Abboud, 56, of Merrick, who once ran Human First, which is based out of Nassau County, was found guilty of embezzling funds, bank fraud and money laundering following a two-week trial in Brooklyn federal court. From January 2011 until she was let go from Health First - which provides services to developmentally disabled people - was the charity’s executive director and was in charge of distributing the organiz…