ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police announced the arrest of a man who stole more than $800,000 from three state school districts.<\/p>\n
The state police said that on Sept. 2, they charged Zacchary E. Weber, age 49, of Rochester, NY, for the theft. The police said that, in total, $810,695.55 was stolen from the schools.<\/p>\n
The investigation began in September 2025 after the Sodus Central School District reported concerns involving funds administered by Health Economics Partners LL, a company that administered medical and dental benefit accounts for organizations, including school districts. Weber serves as the company\u2019s CEO and president.<\/p>\n
The police said the investigation determined that funds were allegedly transferred without authorization from accounts belonging to the Sodus Central School District and North Rose-Wolcott Central School District in Wayne County and the Bemus Point Central School District in Chautauqua County to accounts controlled by HEP.<\/p>\n
The police said the following was stolen:<\/p>\n
Sodus Central School District — $377,757.75North Rose-Wolcott Central School District — $181,817.94Bemus Point Central School District — $251,119.86<\/p>\n
Weber was charged with two counts of grand larceny in the second degree for the crime. He was taken to Wayne County Jail for CAP arraignment.<\/p>\n
However, after his arraignment, he was also charged with grand larceny in the second degree in the town of Ellery, Chautauqua County. He was transported to Chautauqua County for arraignment.<\/p>\n
The investigation into the matter is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police announced the arrest of a man who stole more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-340141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}