{"id":276916,"date":"2026-09-02T00:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276916\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:32:14","slug":"jennifer-rivera-resigns-from-the-lower-merion-school-board-following-arrest-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276916\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Rivera resigns from the Lower Merion School Board following arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER MERION \u2014 Lower Merion School District officials Wednesday afternoon reported that Jennifer Rivera has tendered her resignation as a school board director effective Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera, 41, of the 100 block of Leland Road in Bala Cynwyd, has been a member of the Lower Merion Board of School Directors since late last year.<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested on Aug. 24 after turning herself in to the Lower Merion Police, facing charges in the alleged theft of $50,243 from her former employer, SMB Team, a law firm marketing agency in Bala Cynwyd.<\/p>\n<p>She has been charged with theft by deception, receiving stolen property and access device fraud in the alleged crimes that occurred from 2024 into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Following arraignment, Rivera was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. She is currently scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>The board plans to vote on accepting Rivera\u2019s resignation at a special meeting Sept. 14 at 5:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>District officials said they would provide additional information about the process to fill the vacancy in a timely manner, in compliance with the Public School Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION \u2014 Lower Merion School District officials Wednesday afternoon reported that Jennifer Rivera has tendered her resignation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[202,182,183,185,184,186,139],"class_list":["post-276916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276916","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=276916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}