Vote Early and Often

This week's contestants for "Charity Criminal of the Week" read like some sort of Saturday Night Live skit gone wrong, in that it's nearly impossible to imagine that human beings in positions of power could actually be this sinister. Who gets your vote?

• Would it be the food bank employee who stole $300,000 in cash over a 7-year period, and then claimed a "computer peculiarty could be responsible for the missing funds?"
  
• Maybe your vote belongs to the treasurer of the Ohio city's Chamber of Commerce's charitable fund, who also founded a cancer support group, and subsequently helped himself to $60K from each group's coffers?
  
• How about the Bank Vice-President (a pillar of his community, I'm sure) who took $30,000 ear-marked for inner-city childrens' charities?
  
• Not bad enough for you? Maybe you'd prefer the fire chief who made off with $40K intended for a firefighter charity? Shockingly, given the way most charity crime is handled in our judicial system, this guy is actually going to jail.
  
• Maybe you like your criminals to just look and act like criminals. Then you'll prefer these low-lifes in Colorado who swindled an 83-year-old woman out of $20,000 for their fictitious "Denver Metro Children's Help Center." Surprised they didn't throw "Police" or "Firefighters" into the name too, just for fun.
  
• But if you've read this far, you'll probably want to vote for Frank Winters of Clayton, New Jersey. Mr. Winters creates the perfect storm of malfeasance, in that he and his wife used his position as the police chief to bilk the local Mothers Against Drunk Driving out of $150,000! I suspect we may have a winner.