FARGO (KFGO/KVRR) — Commissioner Dave Piepkorn is requesting the city attorney look into the legality of recovering city funds from entities that misused money from the City of Fargo.
One of the entities called out in his request is Faith4Hope.
Faith and Charles Dixon are charged with theft for moving thousands of dollars from their charity into personal and family accounts. They are set to go on trial in November.
Presentation Partners In Housing in Fargo was the other entity included in the commission’s agenda. Cheri Gerken who served as executive director was accused of embezzling from the non-profit.
Commissioner Denise Kolpack felt uneasy calling out any single entity since it is still alleged and would rather generalize the request.
“If it can be more general – directed to all recipients of city funds to have some criteria if and when something would happen – I certainly would support the generalization of this request,” said Kolpack.
Piepkorn said, “I don’t know for sure if we’ll be eligible to get anything back but at least to attempt to recover is a good thing.”
The motion passed unanimously.
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