A Charity Founder Allegedly Misappropriated Funds Then Things Got Really Messy
A magistrate previously ordered her to hand back a brand new 4WD to the charity.
The founder of homelessness charity Street Swags, Jean Madden, was charged with fraud on Tuesday night after splitting from the charity earlier this year amid allegations she had misappropriated funds.
@JeanMadden/Twitter / Via Twitter: @jeanmadden
The one-time Queensland Young Australian of the Year was charged with one count of “dishonestly causing detriment” to the charity after its directors found she had "hijacked" the Street Swags email system, accounting software and website, where she posted a new message on the homepage.
Madden founded the charity, which provides the homeless with canvas bags that roll out into bedding, in 2010.
She also embedded a video to the homepage where she tells her side of the story.
Jean Madden/YouTube / Via youtube.com
"To have misappropriated $441,000, which is what I'm being accused of, is physically impossible," she said.