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Q: Will Ex-CASA Head Indictment Hurt Fund-raiser?

Item: Ex-CASA head indicted in thefts: Rhonda Naylor also faces 19 counts of wire fraud/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review

More Info: A federal grand jury has indicted the former head of North Idaho's Court Appointed Special Advocates program for allegedly stealing about $2,400 from the nonprofit group's coffers and lying to a federal agent. Rhonda Naylor, also known as Rhonda Richardson, allegedly told an FBI agent that she had purchased more than $200 worth of clothing at CJ Banks for a young CASA client who was "extremely heavy" and "had self-esteem problems." Naylor actually bought the clothes for herself, the grand jury found.

Question: Will this hurt that big CASA fund-raiser being planned by downtown good guy Jim Elder and sponsored by John Beutler and his wife this month?




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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.