{"id":271498,"date":"2026-08-24T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:04:08","slug":"lower-merion-school-board-member-charged-with-stealing-da-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/271498\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Merion school board member charged with stealing: DA \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A current member of the Lower Merion School Board was charged on Monday with stealing more than $50,000 from her former employer, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, 41-year-old Jennifer Rivera, of Bala Cynwyd, was arrested and faces multiple felonies for using a company credit car from SMB in Bala Cynwyd to pay for personal items such as a a vacation and clothing.<\/p>\n

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In all, Rivera is accused of spending $25,000 on a vacation for her family and friends, as well as a $25,596.68 on clothing, prosecutors said. She also spent $1,339 on videography\/photography services for a Bar Mitzvah, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Rivera also booked a future trip to the Bahamas using $9,000 in American Express points from the company card, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n

Rivera has been charged with four counts of theft by deception, along with one count of receiving stolen property and device fraud, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n

She was taken into custody on Monday, Aug. 24, and was then able to post her $25,000 bail, prosecutors said. Her next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 2. <\/p>\n

According to the Lower Merion School District’s website<\/a>, Rivera is the co-chair of the school board’s curriculum committee, and is also a member of the facilities and purchases committee. Rivera attended the latest school board meeting on Aug. 17. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A current member of the Lower Merion School Board was charged on Monday with stealing more than $50,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186],"class_list":["post-271498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271498","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=271498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}