9/11 Charity Organizer Accused in Fraud Case in U.S.
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An organizer of a Hamptons charity event benefiting the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was arrested at the party on fraud charges from a fugitive warrant in Colorado, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said Wednesday, 1010 WINS news website reported.
Glenda Joy Chesshir, 46, who has homes in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, Calif., and Aspen, Colo., was arrested last Saturday during the “Fourth Annual White Party Clam Bake” in Amagansett, said DA spokesman Robert Clifford. Chesshir is charged with four felony counts of fraud, allegedly for writing checks of $500 or more with insufficient funds, according to an arrest warrant issued in Pitkin County, Colo.
“It is our understanding that the case is related to the defendant taking a large sum of money, a reported $147,000, from a Colorado woman who claims she had an agreement with Ms. Chesshir to invest the money, but Ms. Chesshir never did,'' Clifford said.
She was arrested by the Suffolk County fugitive squad at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, where she was attending a clam bake to benefit the children of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. An invitation to the fundraiser lists Chesshir as one of three chairs for the event. The bond-trading firm lost 658 of its 1,050 employees in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
The $200-a-person clam bake featured "lobsters, libations and live music", according to an invitation. Chesshir was released Tuesday on $6,000 bond, Clifford said. There was no immediate response from the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund when reached by telephone and e-mail seeking comment.
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, 9/11, U.S., charity, fraud
Charity News Online
An organizer of a Hamptons charity event benefiting the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks was arrested at the party on fraud charges from a fugitive warrant in Colorado, the Suffolk County district attorney's office said Wednesday, 1010 WINS news website reported.
Glenda Joy Chesshir, 46, who has homes in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, Calif., and Aspen, Colo., was arrested last Saturday during the “Fourth Annual White Party Clam Bake” in Amagansett, said DA spokesman Robert Clifford. Chesshir is charged with four felony counts of fraud, allegedly for writing checks of $500 or more with insufficient funds, according to an arrest warrant issued in Pitkin County, Colo.
“It is our understanding that the case is related to the defendant taking a large sum of money, a reported $147,000, from a Colorado woman who claims she had an agreement with Ms. Chesshir to invest the money, but Ms. Chesshir never did,'' Clifford said.
She was arrested by the Suffolk County fugitive squad at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, where she was attending a clam bake to benefit the children of the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. An invitation to the fundraiser lists Chesshir as one of three chairs for the event. The bond-trading firm lost 658 of its 1,050 employees in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
The $200-a-person clam bake featured "lobsters, libations and live music", according to an invitation. Chesshir was released Tuesday on $6,000 bond, Clifford said. There was no immediate response from the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund when reached by telephone and e-mail seeking comment.
Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund, 9/11, U.S., charity, fraud
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