Food Pantry Director Accused Of Supermarket Shoplifting

[Ian David]

Food Pantry Director Accused Of Supermarket Shoplifting
DiGuilio Maintains Innocence In Court

POSTED: 3:32 pm EDT May 6, 2008
UPDATED: 3:44 pm EDT May 6, 2008

BOSTON -- The director of a local food pantry and his wife have been charged with shoplifting from a supermarket, according to a local paper.

Ronald DiGuilio, 60, and his wife Rita, 57, pleaded not guilty to the charge at their arraignment in Quincy District Court Tuesday. DiGuilio is the executive director of the Randolph Community Food Pantry.

"I'm not guilty," DiGuilio told the Brockton Enterprise as he left the courthouse. "There's more behind it."

The DiGuilios were arrested by Randolph police on Monday night after they allegedly took food and other merchandise from the Shaw’s Supermarket on Memorial Parkway, the paper reported.

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Randolph food pantry fails to file financial reports with state
State says it has failed to file financial reports

The Patriot Ledger
Posted Mar 06, 2008 @ 06:32 AM
Last update Mar 06, 2008 @ 07:33 AM
RANDOLPH —

Failure to file financial disclosure reports required by state law has brought a threat of legal action against the Randolph Community Food Pantry and Ron DiGuilio, its longtime executive director.

As a result, the state attorney general’s office ordered the pantry not to engage in fundraising activity. That order, issued on March 8, 2007, remains in effect.

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Cardone wrote that the pantry “engaged in illegal fundraising” when it held an event March 8, 2007, at the Knights of Columbus in Randolph, because it did not have a valid certificate for solicitation. A letter telling the pantry “to cease and desist all solicitation activity” had been sent to DiGuilio that day, she wrote.

DiGuilio, a school committee candidate in the April 1 town election, did not return calls for comment on Tuesday and Wednesday. DiGuilio has served as the pantry’s executive director for the past 14 years.

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