‘A Ponzi Scheme’: Lawmakers Skewer Leaders of Disgraced Parks Nonprofit - The San Francisco Standard

Former SF Parks Alliance CEO Faces the Music Over Misused Millions at Angry City Hall Committee Hearing

The very uncomfortable-looking man below is SF Parks Alliance CEO Drew Becher, who had to squirm Thursday as angry SF supervisors' committee grilled him over how $4 million was misspent, and he claimed he just didn’t know it was happening.SFGovTVThere are no free movies in SF Parks this summer, because the SF Parks Alliance that organized those events has completely collapsed in a financial scandal. The Parks Alliance is not the same thing as th…

‘A Ponzi scheme’: Lawmakers skewer leaders of disgraced parks nonprofit - The San Francisco Standard

Supervisors on the Government Audit and Oversight Committee were left frustrated on Thursday with answers coming from the former Parks Alliance executives.

Former Parks Alliance board members describe financial chaos within organization

Supervisors grilled leaders of imploded nonprofit for not knowing their finances or communicating with the organizations that depended on them Former Parks Alliance board members describe financial chaos within organization

Parks Alliance leaders accept no responsibility for the group's scandal and collapse

In an extraordinary hearing July 17, leaders of the San Francisco Parks Alliance refused to take any responsibility for the crisis that brought to organization to collapse. The former CEO and treasurer of the organization told the Government Audit and Oversight Committee that the misappropriation of funds that cost small community groups hundreds of thousands of dollars happened entirely without their knowledge. Sup. Shamann Walton challenged th…