Ethel Denise Perry on Friday signed a plea agreement, the New York attorney general said, admitting that she took more than $2 million for the homeless and spent it on luxury goods and cars.
The outgoing commissioner's agency has recently landed in hot water for outsourcing homeless shelter operations to sketchy companies with histories of self-dealing.
The operator of a New York homeless shelter copped to raiding nearly $2.4 million from the nonprofit's coffers and failing to pay taxes on it while she and her family lived in the lap of luxury, state Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday.