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the mokena messenger | November 27, 2019 | 3
Former secretary arrested, charged in missing-funds case
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Nuria Mathog
Contributing Editor
A former
Lincoln-
Way Central
employee
faces 11
criminal
charges after
allegedly
stealing
McGrath
money from the Lincoln-
Way Central Athletic
Booster Club by using a
fraudulent spreadsheet and
forging signatures of the
organization’s leadership.
Melissa McGrath, 51, of
15628 Waterford Lane in
Manhattan, was arrested
the afternoon of Friday,
Nov. 22, and charged
with five counts of theft,
two counts of identification
theft, two counts of
theft by deception and two
counts of forgery, according
to a press release issued
the same evening by
the Will County Sheriff’s
Office.
McGrath, a former LWC
athletics office assistant,
resigned from her position
in June, a month after
Lincoln-Way Community
High School District 210
launched an internal investigation
into financial
discrepancies in Booster
records.
The Will County Sheriff’s
Office has been investigating
the case since
Aug. 6, when deputies
initially met with administrators
in reference to
suspicious financial transgressions
that had been
discovered on the Boosters’
accounting books,
A timeline of events
A breakdown of the events that
led to the investigation into
missing funds
• 2016* - Money begins to go
missing from Lincoln-Way Central
Athletic Boosters, but is not
discovered until bookkeeping
records are compared with
D210’s in 2019.
• Late spring/early summer 2019
- The “original concern” over
discrepancies in sporting event
gate receipts is uncovered during
an audit in preparation of the
district’s annual budget.
• May 7 - D210 launches a
month-long internal investigation
according to the Nov. 22
press release. At this time,
the Lincoln-Way administration
reported that an
led by administration, its
independent inspector general
and accounting firm Sikich LLP.
• June 24 - The resignation of
longtime LWC athletics secretary
Melissa McGrath is accepted by
the board of education.
• July 19 - Results of the internal
investigation are turned over to
D210 Board of Education. The
investigation found no evidence of
fraud related to the discrepancies
in sporting event gate receipts.
• Aug. 5 - LWC Athletic Boosters
meet with D210 administration
regarding the Boosters’ current
account balance. It is discovered
that the accounts do not
match. The Will County Sheriff’s
internal investigation had
been conducted, and it was
thought that McGrath was
fraudulently taking money
Department is contacted.
• Aug. 6 - The Will County
Sheriff’s Department begins its
investigation into the matter of
missing funds from Lincoln-Way
Central Athletic Boosters.
• Aug. 22 - 12-year district AD
Matt Lyke resigns.
• Nov. 22 - McGrath arrested,
charged with five counts of theft,
two counts of identification theft,
two counts of theft by deception
and two counts of forgery.
*Note: Will County Sheriff’s
Department has listed the date of
2017, while in previous reports,
LW D210 Board President Joseph
Kosteck reported the date as
2016.
from the Boosters by running
two sets of financial
books, police said.
According to the Sheriff’s
Office, an investigation
found more than
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