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NEW YORK CITY---A senior supervisor with the financial services department of the NYC Administration of Children's Services and another individual have been charged with defrauding the agency of over $65,000 in funds that were intended for the care of foster children.
Evelyn McCoy of Manhattan and Marvin Dunlap of Winston-Salem, NC, each face a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine on charges of mail fraud. McCoy also faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the alleged theft from a program receiving federal funds.
McCoy is charged with theft from a program receiving federal funds and mail fraud. According to the complaint, she has been employed by the City of New York since 1970. During 2003, she was a senior supervisor in the financial services department at ACS where her responsibilities included, among other things, overseeing payments made by ACS in connection with ACS's foster care program.
The complaint alleges that McCoy implemented a scheme to improperly remove funds in excess of $65,000 intended for the benefit of foster children from an account operated by ACS to which, in her role as a senior ACS supervisor, she had access.
As part of its stated mission, ACS recruits and trains foster parents and caregivers to provide safe homes for children in foster care. In particular, ACS certifies adults as foster parents and implements and manages a program that provides homes for children need of foster care. Foster parents are entitled to funding to provide necessary care to the foster children for whom they are responsible. The amount of funds allocated to a particular child is dependent upon the level of difficulty that child presents. The greater the amount of care a child requires, the more funds will be
provided by ACS.
The complaint alleges McCoy submitted false information to ACS designating Dunlap, who is charged with mail fraud, as a foster parent to three children whom he had never met. McCoy then allegedly changed, without authorization, the level of difficulty rankings for those children in order to trigger additional disbursements of funds to those children. Because Dunlap was listed as the foster parent for purposes of those disbursements, those funds were diverted to him. The Complaint further alleges that DUNLAP divided the embezzled funds with McCoy.
McCoy has been released on a $100,000 personal recognizance bond in federal court in Manhattan. Dunlap is expected to be presented in federal court in North Carolina. 6-22-06
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