DC Woman Charged For Stealing $100K From Local Nonprofit

WASHINGTON, DC — Federal authorities charged a D.C. woman Tuesday with stealing more than $100,000 in donor checks from a local nonprofit, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia.

D.C. resident Maxine Williams, 48, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather Tuesday in the U.S. District Court. She was charged on a one-count criminal complaint in connection with the theft of more than $100,000 in donor checks, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin, U.S Postal Inspector-in-Charge for the Washington Division, Peter Rendina, and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Peter Newsham.

Williams was employed between February 2015 and March 2018 as an administrative assistant by a D.C. nonprofit. In March 2018, her employer discovered the theft of six donation checks totaling approximately $18,000. When Williams was confronted by her employer, she admitted that she had deposited four checks into her Bank of America account, according to the criminal complaint.

A subsequent investigation determined that Williams had deposited approximately 123 checks made out to the nonprofit to the same account between February 2016 and December 2017, authorities said. Those checks amounted to $110,830. An additional 21 checks from the nonprofit made out to individuals and/or vendors totaling $11,702 were also revealed to have been deposited into Williams' account, according to the complaint.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Washington Division and MPD investigated this case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kondi Kleinman is prosecuting the case against Williams.