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(14,881 posts)While working as the business manager for the Arizona Citizens for the Arts/Arizona Action for the Arts in 2007 and 2008, a job she includes in her online résumé, Oso issued checks to herself, made unauthorized withdrawals and made personal charges on the organization's credit card. The theft occurred over the course of a year and totaled about $11,000, court records show.
Oso had walked off the job in May 2008 without explanation "after being counseled about absences and performance-related issues," records state. She was fired after she failed to show up for work for three days, and the embezzlement was apparently discovered soon afterward.
Twenty-seven at the time, Oso confessed to court officials that she used the money to pay rent, make car payments, and "stabilize her financial situation."
Brenda Sperduti, the organization's former executive director, told officials that the arts group, which depends on donations for its survival, "had to win back the trust of donors after this." But Sperduti also asked for leniency for Oso