Senior Official Resigns From Troubled United Way

The chief financial officer at the United Way in Washington has resigned, charging that the scandal-ridden organization is exaggerating the amount of money it has raised, reports The Washington Post.

Board members of the organization deny that any wrongdoing has occurred.

Kim Tran, who resigned from the United Way in March, was hired in 2003 after the organziation’s chief executive and board members were accused of mismanagement.

That same year, a new chief executive, Charles Anderson, was appointed to head the United Way after Oral Suer, who led the organization for more than two decades, was forced to resign. Mr. Suer pleaded guilty in 2004 to stealing nearly $500,000 from the organization.

Ms. Tran says that Mr. Anderson asked her to include money from 2005 in the organization’s 2004 fund-raising results so that the organization’s coffers would appear healthy to the public and to the charity’s board.

Her resignation comes at a time when some employees and former workers at the charity are complaining that Mr. Anderson received generous salary increases and other perks while other workers received cuts in benefits and small pay raises.

Mr. Anderson did not comment publicly on Ms. Tran’s resignation. The newspaper said that Mr. Anderson has the full support of his board.

Read The Chronicle’s coverage of the 2003 scandal.