American Legion Mayhew Vincent White Cane Post 266

“This statement is made by robin hoyle, commander, american legion mayhew-vincent white cane post 266. In june 2017 an employee who was one of the signors on a bank account managed to gain sole control over that account. Certain lawsuits were also filed around this time. The organization hired an attorney and ultimately was able to gain control back over the account in june 2018. The organization was also able to part ways with the employee. The organization has preliminarily determined that during the time the employee had sole control of the account approximately 86,000 was likely diverted. Approximately 41,000 in 2017 and approximately 45,000 in 2018. The employee also did not return organization property in her posession, nor donor lists or employee files. The organization filed a police report. The steps taken to prevent this from happening again include using only one bank account now and the finance officer is on that account.”

“There were no committees that had authority to act on behalf of the board”

“These questions were answered no since there were no officers or key employees as defined in form 990 instructions were compensated during 2018”

“Elections are conducted by written ballot and a majority of all votes cast is necessary to elect new officers. Any current member of post 266 is eligible to seek and hold office. First ballot re new officers takes place at the regular meeting in march each year and the second ballot and election of officers takes place in the regular april meeting. Installation happens in may for a june 1 start date.”

“The return is reviewed by the commander”

“There is one class of member. Members vote to elect the board.”

“Program Service Expenses 62,519, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES”

“During 2017 and subsequently, due to employee turnover and the matter described above accounting and other records were not consistently maintained. This return has been assembled using the information available.”

“In february 2017 the organization sold the building located at 5860 westminster blvd, westminster ca 92683 that it had purchased in 2016.”