A Utah-based Christian Okay-12 academy fired 4 high directors for his or her alleged involvement in what’s probably a multi-million greenback embezzlement scheme involving tuition funds.  

The Layton Christian Academy has filed a lawsuit in an effort to recoup among the losses and forestall the accused people from accessing the monetary information. On Tuesday, the academy held an open dialogue with dad and mom on the Youngsters’s Heart Auditorium to debate issues a couple of lack of transparency and communication. 

As KSL-TV reported Monday, the 4 terminated people are Greg Miller, head of the college; Karen Miller, an administrator; Jared Miller, secondary training principal; and Lexie Miller, a scholar life advisor. The fired directors are all members of the identical household. 

In a Monday letter to the academy’s neighborhood, Rev. Myke Crowder, founding father of Layton Christian Academy and senior pastor on the Christian Life Heart in Layton, said that he “had no alternative however to terminate” the 4 directors. 

“They’re instantly terminated from all employment and illustration of Christian Life Heart Church or Layton Christian Academy, Eagle Elite Sports activities, or another applications associated to CLC or LCA,” Crowder wrote. 

On account of pending authorized proceedings, the academy founder said in the identical letter that the college couldn’t launch additional particulars associated to the directors’ termination. 

In a separate letter, Crowder promised to handle dad and mom’ issues a couple of lack of communication from faculty directors and vowed that new administrative employees can be “open and clear.”

“We acknowledge the shortage of communication that has been occurring over the previous months has been tough for a lot of of you. It has been tough for me to observe because the founding father of Layton Christian Academy and the pastor of CLC for over 35 years,” Crowder said.

The Layton Christian Academy didn’t instantly reply to The Christian Publish’s request for remark. 

In a separate Monday KSL-TV report, the outlet analyzed courtroom paperwork associated to the lawsuit filed by the Christian Life Heart, which owns and operates the academy. The church was based because the First Meeting of God in 1952. Crowder was elected pastor in 1986, and the academy opened in 1993. 

The lawsuit alleges that the college directors had been behind a “huge fraud and probably multi-million greenback embezzlement scheme.” 

“If the Millers should not stopped, they may financially destroy Christian Life Heart as a complete,” the doc claims. 

The authorized filings allege the Millers diverted tuition cash to help their enterprise ventures. An inside investigation into the scandal started after Myke Crowder’s son, Chris Crowder, grew to become suspicious late final yr after an $88,000 bill was found. 

“We did an inside investigation, and that investigation bought to the purpose the place we felt like we wanted to show it over to correct authorities,” Crowder stated. “No matter what number of controls you’ve gotten on transactions, looks like there may be at all times one thing you will get round.”

Final February, a Catholic nun was sentenced to a yr in jail after she was convicted of stealing over $825,000 from a California Catholic faculty the place she served as principal.

Courtroom paperwork allege that Mary Margaret Kreuper diverted funds from St. James Catholic College within the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance “to pay for bills that the order wouldn’t have authorized, a lot much less paid for, together with massive playing bills incurred at casinos and sure bank card costs.”

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