The former head of a Boston elder services program has been indicted for stealing thousands of dollars intended to benefit city’s seniors.
Alfred G. Davis, 70 of Lynn, was charged on Thursday with two counts of larceny over $250 and one count each of forgery and uttering.
According to an investigating, Davis was the director of elder services for the Boston Housing Authority in 2008, when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation named him a "Community Health Leader" and awarded him a grant of $105,000 to improve the health of Boston seniors. Davis was also awarded a $20,000 stipend to be used for his personal development as a community health leader.
Davis, a 20-year employee of the BHA, never informed the housing agency of the grant funds that were intended to benefit the elderly residents.
According to police, Davis used some of the funds to fulfill the grant’s intended purpose but is alleged to have misused $20,000 for his own personal use, making a series of ATM withdrawals from the grant account totaling $5,400 and receiving approximately $9,900 directly from the foundation after he submitted a forged invoice for a senior fitness program that had already been funded.
Police said Davis used some of the grant funds to purchase taxi vouchers for seniors to travel to appointments, but later presented the clinic with receipts for the cab fares and requested reimbursement for the costs of the trips.
The clinic paid Davis $5,222 in travel and other reimbursements that he was not due out of funds from a separate grant.
Davis allegedly used the funds to travel to Las Vegas, New Orleans and Barbados.
As a result of the theft, police said, the Elder/Disabled Housing Division of the Boston Housing Authority was eliminated and its operations subsumed by other city of Boston offices.
Davis’ arraignment has not yet been scheduled.
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