Former Milford Rotary Club Treasurer Heads To Prison For Embezzlement

Longtime Milford Rotary Club Treasurer Richard Weir will spend the next three years in prison for taking $230,000 from the Milford Rotary and the Special Olympics organizations, NBC Connecticut reports.

Weir was sentenced Tuesday at Superior Court in Milford. He was facing a maximum 12-year prison sentence but received three years instead, NBC reports.

The embezzlement occurred over an 18-year period and new safeguards have been installed by Milford Rotary Club to ensure that could not happen again, the Connecticut Post has reported.

The Milford Rotary sponsors a lot of charitable and civic causes in the Milford community.

NBC reports that Weir repaid some of the money that had been stolen, and his defense attorney said his client was ‘very remorseful’ and intended to repay all of the money.

As part of Weir’s sentencing, he must make restitution.

Read the full NBC story here.

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