Being caught embezzling from your neighbors can certainly be very embarrassing. Usually, though the embezzler is arrogant enough to not care if he or she is exposed as a thief. But things turned out very differently for a school board president and HOA treasurer.
I’ll spare you the details but just leave the link below:
(link to embezzler story in the Tacoma News Tribune)
A co-worker of mine said his HOA treasurer hung herself in her garage after she was caught embezzling.
There are more cases of suicide due to embezzling from HOAs than are reported. Many HOAs want to keep it quiet so the media, neighbors, and Realtors do not know about it.
If we knew the actual number of deaths by suicide after stealing from the HOA it would probably be unbelievable.