This article is written as a first-person narrative based on an interview with Tiffanie Desrosiers. I entered the foster care system when I was 15 years old. I was allowed to be placed with other family members – two aunts and my grandmother – until I completed high school. It kept me tied to family and to my culture, which is Cape Verdean.
Nathan Kaufman embezzled more than $3 million dollars from a school for innercity children, according to the Rhode Island State Police. Now, details are emerging that Kaufman used the money to cover his day-trading losses in the stock market.
Rhode Island State Police have arrested a Providence man for allegedly embezzling $3 million for a Providence school designed to help at-risk children.