Former Pittsburgh Police Chief Nathan Harper will be sentencedFeb. 25 after pleading guilty to federal charges that he conspiredto misapply more than $70,000 and deposited the funds intounauthorized accounts at the $59.5 million, 5,908-member Greater Pittsburgh Police Federal Credit Union, according tocourt documents.
|Harper also pleaded guilty Oct. 18 in U.S. District Court inPittsburgh for failing to file income tax returns from 2008 to2011.
|The Greater Pittsburgh Police FCU was not a target of thefederal investigation.
|“We complied with the subpoena and we are not involved (in theinvestigation) other than producing the documents that wererequired from the subpoena,” Greater Pittsburgh Police FCU Karen Janoski told CreditUnion Times when the story broke in the local media inFebruary.
|Harper acknowledged that he diverted more than $70,000 the cityof Pittsburgh collected in fees from businesses that hire itsofficers to work off-duty assignments into two unauthorized creditunion accounts, according to the Associated Press.
|The former police chief also admitted to spending about $32,000for his own benefit, but that the remaining $38,000 was spent onlegitimate police business, the AP reported.
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