Centro bookkeeper accused of embezzlement found via Craigslist ad
SAN ANTONIO -- It all started with a Craigslist post.
Alicia Henderson, the local woman accused of embezzling $291,000 from Centro San Antonio, responded to a job listing on that website in early 2014 posted by local accounting agency Keys Bookkeeping, according to Kyle Edwards, whose wife Keyona is the agency’s founder. At that time, Centro had been using Keys for almost a year to help keep its books in order and the agency sent Henderson, an accountant, to the nonprofit, he said.
Less than a month later, Centro hired Henderson from Keys to be its office manager and staff accountant, Edwards said. The nonprofit paid her an annual salary of about $57,000 funded mostly by taxpayers, Centro officials said.
“We sent one of our contractors out there to help them out, and they basically hired her from under us,” Edwards said. “It was shady the way the whole thing ended with Centro and Keys Bookkeeping. You reap what you sow … you do bad, you get bad in return.”
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Last month, Centro leaders admitted they didn’t perform a background check before hiring Henderson, so they didn’t know she had pleaded guilty to felony bank fraud in 1997 and had been charged twice with theft by check. She also has declared bankuptcy twice, and her home has teetered at the edge of foreclosure for five years.
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