{"id":251372,"date":"2026-07-24T20:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:05:07","slug":"philadelphia-man-pleads-guilty-to-defrauding-nonprofits-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251372\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia man pleads guilty to defrauding nonprofits \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding two local nonprofits of more than $320,000, according to U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania David Metcalf.<\/p>\n<p>Seth S. Jones, 46, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud after being charged last month in connection with the scheme, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>From at least 2017 through September 2025, Jones worked in the finance department of a nonprofit that served as the parent organization of a second nonprofit. <\/p>\n<p>Officials did not identify either nonprofit organization.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Jones defrauded the organizations by using a company credit card to pay for approximately $291,023 in personal expenses and diverting approximately $31,775 from a bank account associated with the second nonprofit into bank accounts he controlled.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Jones carried out the scheme by falsifying expense reports, failing to submit expense reports and creating fake invoices.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is set to be sentenced on Nov. 5 and faces a maximum of 40 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man pleaded guilty Friday to defrauding two local nonprofits of more than $320,000, according to U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-251372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251372","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=251372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}