Former Andover Youth Services Director Pays $20K Fine For Violations

ANDOVER, MA — Former Andover Youth Services Director William Fahey has paid a $20,000 fine for violating conflict of interest laws, according to a statement from the State Ethics Commission. Fahey was accused of receiving payments from a private nonprofit that he then allocated to himself and members of his staff.

Fahey signed a disposition agreement in which he admitted the violations, according to the statement.

Fahey was director of Andover Youth Services in 2016. Fahey and Assistant Director Glenn Wilson met with the president of the private nonprofit Hurston Family Foundation.

The foundation offered to provide funding for Andover Youth Services to support building maintenance, programming, and staff, according to the statement. The two sides agreed that the Hurston Family Foundation would send funds to another private nonprofit, the Andover Youth Foundation, which would then disburse the funds to Andover Youth Services.

The Hurston Family Foundation made its first donation to Andover Youth Services this way in May 2016, earmarking $3,000 of the funds for payments of $500 each to Fahey, Wilson, and four other Andover Youth Services staff members.

The Hurston Family Foundation made nine more donations in the same way, all of which included private compensation for Andover Youth Services staff. From 2016 through 2021, Fahey received a total of 10 payments of private compensation totaling $16,500.

According to the statement, "...because Fahey was given the private compensation because of his position as Andover Youth Services Director, he violated the conflict of interest law’s prohibition against public employees receiving anything of substantial value not authorized by law or regulation, for or because of their official positions."

Wilson also paid a $9,000 civic penalty for conflict of interest violations after signing a disposition agreement.

Fahey was dismissed from his position in 2021 while he was under investigation on unrelated allegations.

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Former Andover Youth Services Leader Pays $9K For Ethics Violation