| |
| | PlaybillArts: News: Former Head of Famed Harlem Music School Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement |
 | | Katherine Ogonek, the executive director of the Opus 118 Harlem Center for Strings from 1999-2003, has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $40,000 from the school, the Associated Press reports. |
 | | According to prosecutors, Ogonek, who was fired in 2003, bought computers, clothing, meals, airline tickets, and other items using an Opus 118 credit card, as well as writing unauthorized checks and paying herself about $13,000. |
 | | Ogonek was the executive director of the Westchester Symphony Orchestra in White Plains, New York, from 1997 to 1999. |
| www.playbillarts.com /news/article/658.html (431 words) |
|