Oral Suer was the CEO of the United Way of the National Capital Area (UWNCA) in the
Washington, D.C.
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area from 1974 to 2002.
A career United Way executive, Suer helped local community leaders create UWNCA from two predecessor organizations,
United Givers Fund
United Givers Fund is the name used by several current or historical joint charitable appeals in the United States. Many of these appeals later adopted the United Way name, sometimes in conjunction with a merger with another charitable appeal.
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and the
Health and Welfare Council, when he arrived in 1974. During his tenure, UWNCA raised over $1 billion for local charities.
In 2002, he was charged of defrauding his organization of almost $500,000 through misuse of leave salary, misreporting expenses such as billing private travel to his company, and drawing retirement benefits from the UWNCA retirement fund while he was still working there.
In May 2004, he was convicted and sentenced to 27 months in prison.
References
External links
US Department of Justice criminal complaintExecutive Update, May 2004 - True North
Ethics Officer Michael Daigneault discusses changes at United Way of the National Capital Area.
1930s births
Living people
American people convicted of fraud
American nonprofit executives
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20th-century American businesspeople