A Fayette County attorney pleaded guilty to wire fraud this week in federal court for misusing more than $240,000 from his clients. John William “JW” Eddy, 39, who previously served as Uniontown solicitor and an assistant district attorney, admitted before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg to
Former director of central Pa. nonprofit group sentenced for embezzling
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The former director of the Perry County Family Center has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for embezzling more than $150,000, according to an announcement from Acting U.S. Attorney Bruce D. Brandler of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Shelley A. Dreyer-Aurila, 55, of New Bloomfield to the prison term on April 28 at the court in Harrisburg. Dreyer-Aurila was also ordered to pay $127,764 in restitution. She had already repaid $22,520.
Dreyer-Aurila, former executive director of the nonprofit Perry County Family Center, plead guilty to the embezzlement charge in October 2019. She admitted to taking the money between 2010 and 2017 for her own uses. The indictment originally charged her with stealing more than $200,000. The center received more than $10,000 annually in federal grants through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Servi