Letter: Red Cross should check records
Former American Red Cross employee Deborah Leggio, who was convicted in the theft of more than $274,000 from the organization, arrives at court in Riverhead for sentencing. (Feb. 27, 2013) Credit: James Carbone
Why did the Red Cross not investigate Deborah Leggio fully, before putting her in a position of trust ["Prison for stealing from Red Cross," News, Feb. 28]? She embezzled a quarter-million dollars from the Suffolk chapter of the American Red Cross while she was its financial director. She was convicted in Florida in 1990 for a similar offense and spent 13 months in prison.
Just a plain computer search today will turn up crimes, or character faults such as a compulsive shopping habit. It was all out there to know. Yet she was given that position. Others in the Red Cross should be held accountable for this laxity.
