{"id":173136,"date":"2026-04-22T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:07","slug":"pittsburgh-area-booster-treasurer-charged-with-stealing-18000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173136\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-area booster treasurer charged with stealing $18,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman is facing charges after police said she stole more than $18,000 from a Pittsburgh-area middle school booster fund.<\/p>\n<p>The Allegheny County Police Department on Wednesday announced charges against 42-year-old Valerie Kubiak of Bridgeville, saying she stole thousands of dollars over the course of several years when she served as the treasurer of the Chartiers Valley Choral Parents Association.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the investigation began in February when detectives were called to Chartiers Valley Middle School to help look into funds believed to be stolen from the booster fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said they learned that Kubiak, the treasurer, had been making unauthorized withdrawals from the association&#8217;s bank account since 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said detectives learned more than $18,000 was stolen and used on personal purchases like restaurants, vacations, sports gambling websites and nail salons. According to the criminal complaint, Kubiak put about $4,600 back into the account in the form of one check from her personal account and multiple FanDuel deposits.<\/p>\n<p>When investigators interviewed Kubiak, they said she admitted to using the funds fraudulently. She said she didn&#8217;t remember using the debit card while she was on vacation in Saint Martin in November, but police said that&#8217;s when all the charges on the island occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kubiak is facing several charges, including receiving stolen property, access device fraud and theft by unlawful taking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman is facing charges after police said she stole more than $18,000 from a Pittsburgh-area middle school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[894,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-173136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-allegheny-county","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}