- Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:16 pm
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The director of Colorado’s health exchange has been placed on administrative leave after the press disclosed she had been indicted for stealing from a non-profit, prior to obtaining the ACA Director position the Denver Post reports:
[Christa Ann] McClure, 51, was charged in federal District Court in Montana to eight counts of theft and fraud from a nonprofit housing agency in Billings. Each of the counts in the indictment against her carry potential penalties of five, 10 or 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
The 12-page indictment alleges that, while serving as executive director of the federally funded Housing Montana, McClure, between 2008 and 2010, paid herself “significant sums” for consulting services, although she was already on the payroll as a full-time employee.
She also made payments to her family and used federal money for personal travel, to pay family bills and to buy consulting services, the indictment alleges.
She also is accused of charging homeowners for a $750 warranty that did not exist, converting a laptop for personal use, inflating the hours she was to be compensated and writing herself a $21,000 check to which she was not entitled.
After being fired from her director position with the federally funded Housing Montana she was hired by the ACA to be Colorado's ACA Director. Prior to obtaining her position with Housing Montana McClure was an events coordinator with ACORN, the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families.
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