Love Makes A Family Employee Charged With Embezzlement
July 18th, 2007 by Peter
A former LMF employee is in the news again:
Michael Bradway, 40, of Cornwall, was the director of finance for the nonprofit Love Makes a Family. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with pocketing proceeds from the sale of a sports car donated to the organization and using agency credit cards to run up about $6,000 in personal expenses, including furniture, computers, hotel stays and food, according to an arrest affidavit.
Bradway pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Superior Court in Hartford to charges of first-degree larceny in the sale of a 2002 Ford Mustang donated to the organization; second-degree larceny in buying $6,025 worth of goods and services for his personal use; and second-degree forgery to obtain the title of the sports car, the affidavit said…
Bradway was arrested in the alleged fake-illness scam [falsely claiming his son was seriously ill] in September 2006. He was charged with defrauding a volunteer group and his family, who collectively raised about $38,000 after he claimed that his 5-year-old son suffered from cystic fibrosis. He was charged with child abuse and larceny; that case is pending.
When those charges were filed, Bradway was working for Love Makes a Family, an organization that promotes same-sex marriages…
Bradway started working for Love Makes a Family in May 2006 as a finance director. He applied for the job over the Internet using a fabricated resume and three letters of recommendation from nonexistent people, according to an affidavit filed to obtain his arrest warrant.
Bradway allegedly defrauded the organization and its employees when he used its credit cards to pay for – among other things – a computer, auto repairs and overnight vacations in Vermont and New York from July 2006 to September 2006, according to court records. He also allegedly charged personal expenses with credit cards obtained for Anne Stanback, the organization’s executive director, and Carol Buckheit, the program director.
The previous charge against Bradway got one mention on this blog and did not come up again until today’s new development. In order to keep our focus on arguments put forth in the public square we will continue that approach to the Bradway story. This post will be closed to comments.
