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List of crimes Ruth Arnao was found guilty of in March 2009

Ruth Arnao was found guilty of 45 counts

FRAUD AGAINST CITIZENS ALLIANCE

Count 1 of 45

65 8/91 to 12/05 Fraud Conspiracy — Citizens Alliance

Conspired to use mails/wires to

execute a scheme to defraud Citizens

Alliance for Better Neighborhoods

(CABN) of its money/property

Count 2 of 45

66 4/3/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx from Arnao /Tasker St.

to Tom Kiley / Kiley & Co. in

Boston, MA of check,

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 3 of 45

67 4/26/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx from Arnao / Tasker Street

to Kiley in Boston of check,

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 4 of 45

68 8/14/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx of merchandise from

Jensen Tools, Inc. to CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 5 of 45

69 8/20/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx of merchandise from

Duluth Trading Co. to

Arnao at CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 6 of 45

70 9/26/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx from Spagna to Al Fox

(Cuban Alliance) of CA Holdings

check dated 9/26/02; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 7 of 45

71 10/7/02 Mail fraud:

FedEx shipment of computer disk

from Kennedy Printing to Sheinkopf

Communications; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 8 of 45

72 7/28/03 Mail fraud:

UPS ground shipment of, among other

things, 5 tool cabinets, a workbench shelf,

& a workbench back/end from

Grainger (NJ) to CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 9 of 45

73 8/11/03 Mail fraud:

Pitt Ohio Express shipment of,

among other things, an air compressor,

steel creeper, service jack, & tire

inflator from Grainger to CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 10 of 45

74 8/27/03 Mail fraud:

UPS shipment including stainless steel

concrete screws, high visibility light duty

bench, and other hardware from

McMaster-Carr to CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 11 of 45

75 9/5/03 Mail fraud:

UPS shipment of DeWalt drill

from Amazon.com to CABN; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 12 of 45

76 2/25/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of invoices

from A.V. Construction, Inc., Newtown,

PA to Pine Tree Realty, 1217 Sansom St,

Philadelphia; caused with intent to

defraud CABN

Count 13 of 45

77 6/13/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx

monthly statement from Westin, FL

to CABN (Tasker Street, Phila); caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 14 of 45

78 6/16/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Discover Card

monthly statement for Arnao’s credit card;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 15 of 45

79 7/14/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx monthly

statement for CABN’s credit card; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 16 of 45

80 9/14/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx monthly

statement for CABN’s credit card; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 17 of 45

81 10/2/02 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of CA Holdings

check to Cingular Wireless; caused

with intent to defraud CABN;

Count 18 of 45

82 2/23/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Discover Card

monthly statement for Nelson’s credit card;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 19 of 45

83 5/12/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Eastern Leasing

Corp. check from CABN to The Hartford

insurance company; caused with intent

to defraud CABN

Count 20 of 45

84 5/15/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of CA Holdings

check to Nextel Communications; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 21 of 45

85 7/15/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx

monthly statement for CABN’s credit

card; caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 22 of 45

86 9/14/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx

monthly statement for CABN’s credit card;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 23 of 45

87 10/16/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Discover Card

monthly statement for Arnao’s credit card;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 24 of 45

88 10/21/03 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Senate of PA check

to 1210 Enterprises, Inc., Philadelphia,

for monthly rental of 1208 Tasker St.;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 25 of 45

89 3/16/04 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of Discover Card

monthly statement for Arnao’s credit card;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 26 of 45

90 7/15/04 Mail fraud:

Postal Service mailing of AmEx monthly

statement for CABN’s credit card; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 27 of 45

91 3/15/02 Wire fraud:

Fax of invoice to CABN in Philadelphia

from Kiley & Co. in Boston, MA for poll

of Philadelphia voters; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 28 of 45

92 4/3/02 Wire fraud:

Fax of invoice to CABN in Philadelphia

from Kiley & Co. in Boston, MA for poll

re: 4 Phila City Council district races;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 29 of 45

93 4/25/02 Wire fraud:

Fax of Wildwood, NJ construction permits

to Wallace in Flourtown, PA; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

Count 30 of 45

94 6/17/02 Wire fraud:

E-mail from Arnao to Fumo re: outstanding

bills from law firm that represented CABN

re: work for the Riparian Defense Fund,

stating: “there were some minor charges

for the riparian defense fund. Do we really

still need this … the issue is dead now.

Please advise. Thanks”; with intent to

defraud CABN

Count 31 of 45

95 9/20/02 Wire fraud:

Fax from Arnao in Philadelphia to Al

Fox in Wash., DC enclosing copy of fax

that same day of Carmen DiCamillo’s

passport, with intent to defraud CABN

Count 32 of 45

96 2/5/03 Wire fraud:

Fax of summary billing statement dated

1/31/03 from Global Strategy Group, NY,

to CABN in Philadelphia re: unpaid invoices;

caused with intent to defraud CABN

Count 33 of 45

97 9/10/03 Wire fraud:

Fax of unpaid invoices from Global

Strategy Group, NY to CABN in

Philadelphia; caused with intent to

defraud CABN

Count 34 of 45

98 12/9/03 Wire fraud:

E-mail from Swett to Arnao, stating

in part, “I need a check for $16,000

made out to Cleveland Brothers in order

for them to fix the bulldozer”; caused

with intent to defraud CABN

FEDERAL TAX-RELATED CHARGES

Count 35 of 45

99 8/99 to 12/05 Conspiracy to Defraud/Obstruct U.S. IRS

Willfully conspired to defraud U.S.

for purpose of obstructing IRS in

ascertaining, computing, assessing &

collecting taxes by using CABN, a

tax-exempt entity, for political purposes

Count 36 of 45

100 5/15/03 False tax return —

2002 Form 990 of CABN

Willfully made & subscribed Form 990 for 2002

on behalf of & as executive director of CABN,

which Arnao did not believe to be true and

correct under tax law as to every material matter,

in that the return stated that CABN had not provided

any assistance outside the ordinary course of

its nonprofit mission to individuals, had not

made any “direct or indirect political expenditures,”

and had not engaged in any Section 4958

excess benefit transaction during the year

Count 37 of 45

102 9/12/03 Filing false tax return —

2002 Form 1120 of CA Holdings, Inc.

Willfully made & subscribed a Form 1120, for

2002, on behalf & as officer of CA Holdings,

Inc., which Arnao did not believe to be true &

correct under tax law as to every material matter,

in that the return declared a deduction of $151,425

for “Community Development Consulting,”

when Arnao knew that this deduction

was false and fraudulent, in that she knew this sum

included expenditures for political polling

and other political campaign expenses which she knew

were not “community development consulting”

expenses and which she knew were not deductible

COUNTS RELATED TO OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

Count 38 of 45

109 11/03-10/05 Conspiracy to obstruct justice

Conspired to commit offenses of

(a) corrupt persuasion to alter or destroy

material to impair its availability in a

grand jury investigation; (b) corrupt destruction

or mutilation of records stored on computer

equipment with intent to impair its

availability for use in an official proceeding;

and (c) knowing alteration and destruction

of records held on computer equipment with

intent to impede a criminal investigation

within the jurisdiction of the FBI and IRS,

all by destroying electronic records known

to be within the scope of a federal criminal

investigation

Count 39 of 45

121 8/6/04 Intentional Destruction/FBI-IRS Investigation:

Knowing destruction, mutilation and

concealment of data on computer

equipment issued to Arnao with intent

to impede known FBI-IRS investigation

Count 40 of 45

124 12/9/04 Intentional Destruction/FBI-IRS Investigation:

Knowing destruction, mutilation and

concealment of data on computer

equipment issued to Arnao with intent

to impede known FBI-IRS investigation

Count 41 of 45

126 1/21/05 Corrupt Destruction/Official Proceeding:

Corrupt destruction, mutilation or

concealment of computer files and records

held on computer equipment issued to or

used by Arnao at or on behalf of CABN,

with intent to impair availability as evidence

for use in an official proceeding

Count 42 of 45

127 1/21/05 Intentional Destruction/FBI-IRS Investigation:

Knowing destruction, mutilation and

concealment of data on computer

equipment issued to Arnao at or on behalf

of CABN, with intent to impede

known FBI-IRS investigation

Count 43 of 45

129 1/28/05 Intentional Destruction/FBI-IRS Investigation:

Knowing destruction, mutilation and

concealment of an e-mail file on computer

equipment issued to Arnao with intent

to impede known FBI-IRS investigation

Count 44 of 45

132 2/11/05 Corrupt Persuasion:

E-mail from Luchko to Wilson to tell

Arnao that Wilson should “wipe” her

“BB” “before the FBI ask for it,” with

intent to impair availability of e-mail

for use in a grand jury investigation

Count 45 of 45

134 2/11/05 Intentional Destruction/FBI-IRS Investigation:

Knowing destruction, mutilation and

concealment of data on computer

equipment issued to Arnao for use at

her vacation home in New Jersey,

with intent to impede known

FBI-IRS investigation

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