The secretary for a nonprofit that raises money for Salt Lake City schools has been charged with stealing more than $23,000 in donations — and spending it on perfume, a hammock stand, prepaid credit cards and her own college tuition.
Lavinia Hyde, 47, faces nine felony counts including misuse of public money, identity fraud and forgery. She is accused of siphoning funds from the Salt Lake Education Foundation for more than a year starting in February 2016.
Salt Lake County prosecutors, though, filed the charges last week after an audit of the foundation showed the alleged transactions.