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What would be the proper term for the situations here and are they felonies or misdemeanors?
A college coach is suspected of pocketing money or not spending it properly on his team. He has horrible financial tracking records, but here's the "criminal" part of the situation:
He was called out by the athletic director when players complained about not having any food money for a tournament trip they took for a week. They were only given $5 per day to spend on dinner when they stopped on their way home from long games and only ate twice a day, in the hotel for complimentary breakfast and then about 7:00 at night after games. When the athletic director found out that he was only spending $5 per day per kid, he suspected the coach of keeping money for himself. He gave the coach a stack of financial statments to be signed and filled in by the players stating how much money they received per day for meals, etc. He wanted the players to fill the amounts in, sign them and turn them back in. The coach called a meeting, passed out the documents, but made the players leave the amounts blank and made them sign the blank forms and give them back to him. Each kid had to sign about 5 blank statements. One student saw the stacks of forms the next day on the coach's desk COMPLETELY FILLED OUT with amounts of $20 per day written on them. The coach turned them in to the Business Office with that false information and all the students' signatures.
What's the legal term for what he did and what would the punishment be for that crime? Also, since the athletic director and Dean knew that he had filled in the amounts himself, are they breaking the law if they don't turn him in to the authorities and could they be in trouble?
A college coach is suspected of pocketing money or not spending it properly on his team. He has horrible financial tracking records, but here's the "criminal" part of the situation:
He was called out by the athletic director when players complained about not having any food money for a tournament trip they took for a week. They were only given $5 per day to spend on dinner when they stopped on their way home from long games and only ate twice a day, in the hotel for complimentary breakfast and then about 7:00 at night after games. When the athletic director found out that he was only spending $5 per day per kid, he suspected the coach of keeping money for himself. He gave the coach a stack of financial statments to be signed and filled in by the players stating how much money they received per day for meals, etc. He wanted the players to fill the amounts in, sign them and turn them back in. The coach called a meeting, passed out the documents, but made the players leave the amounts blank and made them sign the blank forms and give them back to him. Each kid had to sign about 5 blank statements. One student saw the stacks of forms the next day on the coach's desk COMPLETELY FILLED OUT with amounts of $20 per day written on them. The coach turned them in to the Business Office with that false information and all the students' signatures.
What's the legal term for what he did and what would the punishment be for that crime? Also, since the athletic director and Dean knew that he had filled in the amounts himself, are they breaking the law if they don't turn him in to the authorities and could they be in trouble?
