The Fumo case has returned with a suit by the Pennsylvania Attorney General. The AG "wants to shut down the nonprofit, or at least have all current officers and board members replaced." according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He is also seeking a full accounting of the nonprofit's assets and spending and repayment of any wasted or mismanaged money."
You may remember that former Senator Fumo is serving time in federal prison for having defrauded a charity he started, out of about $1.4 million. The AG wanted to include Fumo in his suit but the judge has "excused former State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo from a civil suit against Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods because he was not an officer or director of the South Philadelphia nonprofit that he once said under oath was "my baby". "Judge Dan Pellegrini ruled yesterday that Fumo, now in federal prison, had no fiduciary duty to Citizens' Alliance because he had no official role with the nonprofit, which Fumo and his aides founded in 1991."
Certainly this is good news, for the moment, for Senator Fumo but certainly not good news for the board members whose failure to fulfill their fiduciary responsiblity may make them dig pretty deep into their pockets. So much for friendship but a helpful lesson in the nature of nonprofit fiduciary responsibility.