She was paid more than $467,000 through an \u201cunusual\u201d compensation method involving the nonprofit\u2019s fiscal sponsor, Heluna Health, while also self-issuing nearly $400,000 in payroll checks between 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n
The second salary \u201cappears totally undocumented, unaudited and went under no oversight,\u201d District Attorney\u2019s Office investigators wrote.<\/p>\n
Between 2019 and 2023, investigators said $897,000 of the nearly $3 million in cash that Westbrook withdrew from UCHS accounts was deposited into her own. In addition to the funds that have been traced back to Westbrook\u2019s accounts, investigators say $1.4 million remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n
According to bank statements, Westbrook made repeated payments for luxury vehicles and high-end purchases at retailers \u2014 including from a jewelry store owned by two of UCHS\u2019s board members \u2014 that \u201cfar exceeded\u201d her salary and legitimate sources of income.<\/p>\n
It \u201cis consistent with Westbrook simply spending some of the \u2018missing\u2019 UCHS money on her personal lifestyle,\u201d investigators allege.<\/p>\n
A 2022 city controller\u2019s office audit that spurred the investigation found that UCHS, which had received nearly $28 million from the city\u2019s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, had placed many tenants in housing who might have otherwise been ineligible for the units \u201cat the discretion of staff.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also concluded that the majority of tenants\u2019 incomes were improperly calculated and that UCHS collected and kept revenue that should have gone to their fiscal sponsor at the time, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation. Following the report, Chiu\u2019s office referred the investigation to the San Francisco district attorney and the FBI.<\/p>\n
Westbrook appeared in court on Tuesday and is set to return for her arraignment on March 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was paid more than $467,000 through an \u201cunusual\u201d compensation method involving the nonprofit\u2019s fiscal sponsor, Heluna Health,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-192535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}