{"id":7354,"date":"2011-06-06T16:04:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2011-06-06T12:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T16:30:52","slug":"lawyer-allegedly-steals-1-7m-from-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7354","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Allegedly Steals $1.7M From CHOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A long-trusted attorney for Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia was arrested for allegedly stealing $1.7 million over 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer and general counsel <strong>Roosevelt Hairston Jr.<\/strong>, of Malvern, was charged last week for embezzling $1.7 million from the hospital. <strong>Hairston<\/strong> held the general counsel position for less than a year until being fired on February 18, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The charges &#8212; mail fraud, money laundering, and filing a fake tax return &#8212; stem from the \u201cfinancial irregularities\u201d found during an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hairston<\/strong> allegedly forged invoices and created fake companies to launder money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hairston<\/strong> served on the board of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and was appointed by former Mayor John Street to the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hairston<\/strong> resigned from both of these positions within days of being fired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; A long-trusted attorney for Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia was arrested for allegedly stealing $1.7 million over 12 years. Lawyer and general counsel Roosevelt Hairston Jr., of Malvern, was charged last week for embezzling $1.7 million from the hospital. Hairston held the general counsel position for less than a year until being fired on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}