Kennett Township will recover an additional $56,000 in the embezzlement case involving the former township manager.
The supervisors issued a statement Monday announcing that the township and Brian Gore, former township manager Lisa Moore’s significant other, reached a settlement “regarding potential claims arising out of Moore’s embezzlement of township funds.
“Without admitting or conceding liability or wrongdoing, the parties have determined that it is in their best interests to resolve this dispute,” according to the statement.
The township had a legitimate case against Gore but the agreement makes that point moot.
The statement will likely be brought up at tonight’s supervisors’ meeting, as part of the embezzlement recovery update that has been a mainstay at township meetings since the embezzlement was discovered in 2019.
Gore’s involvement in the embezzlement case surrounds medical benefits he received from the township after Moore allegedly “created a phony marriage to defraud the township, resulting in medical benefits for Gore in excess of $50,000,” according to a press release the supervisors issued in May 2020. At the time, the supervisors said they were “committed to recovering every dollar, and it is wholly appropriate for Moore and Gore to make the township taxpayers whole.”
The Kennett Township supervisors meet tonight at 7 p.m.
About Monica Fragale
Monica Thompson Fragale is a freelance reporter who spent her life dreaming of being in the newspaper business. That dream came true after college when she started working at The Kennett Paper and, years later The Reporter newspaper in Lansdale and other dailies. She turned to non-profit work after her first daughter was born and spent the next 13 years in that field. But while you can take the girl out of journalism, you can’t take journalism out of the girl. Offers to freelance sparked the writing bug again started her fingers happily tapping away on the keyboard. Monica lives with her husband and two children in Kennett Square.
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