Food Pantry Director To Plead Guilty, Pay $18K In Restitution By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Antoine Bourbon-Parme, the former director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry who was charged with stealing more than $18,000 from the organization, will plead guilty and pay back the full amount, District Attorney John Muehl said today. “He’s never been convicted of a crime and he’s making a payment up front,” said Muehl. “That’s what’s keeping him out of jail.” Bourbon-Parme, 59,…
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from STACEY SMITH Despite Setback, Focused Food Pantry In Strong Financial Shape To the Editor: The Cooperstown Food Pantry serves more than 200 families a month, averaging 800 people. With over 100 volunteers and one full time Director, we are committed to serving those who face food insecurity and are in need. Recently, during routine cost evaluations, we discovered that fraudulent financial activities had been engaged in by a staff volunteer. Thankfully our financial checks caught the issue. This led to an investigation by the District Attorney’s office.…
Suspect In Food-Pantry Crime Arrested In ’99 Philly Area Con Same Modus Operandi: English Accent; Prep School, Links To Royalty Claimed By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – An English accent, a boarding school education, ties to royalty and a background in high-end home decorating. These were the lies Antoine Bourbon-Parme – also known as Anthony Cazzari – allegedly told around town. “He had everyone believing he was from England,” said District Attorney John Muehl.…
BOURBON-PARME FORMER CO-DIRECTOR Man Charged With Stealing $18K From Cooperstown Pantry By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The former co-director of the Cooperstown Food Pantry was arraigned at 12:30 p.m. today in Otsego Town Court, charged with stealing more than $18,000 from the organization. Antoine Bourbon-Parme, also known as Anthony Cazzari, was sent to Otsego County Jail on $10,000 cash bail or $20,000 bond by Town Justice Gary Kuch. According to the court documents, Bourbon-Parme forged the…
Near Record Crowds At Empty Bowl Event Bowls and soup were going fast as over 180 people in the first half hour streamed through the doors of the Christ Church in Cooperstown for the annual Empty Bowls event which benefits the local food pantry. Hungry crowds came to try the many different soups offered by 10 area restaurants and seven individuals who in all created over 40 gallons of soup. Above, Amy Zoltick serves a bowl of curried butternut squash…
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Cooperstown Food Pantry Offers Help In Shutdown COOPERSTOWN – With February SNAP benefits being issued early, the Cooperstown Food Pantry is reminding families that those benefits must last through February. However, the Cooperstown Food Pantry is open 10 a.m. -4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays at 25 Church St., and are open to anyone in need of emergency feeding assistance. Information, call 547-8902 or visit www.cooperstownfoodpantry.org.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, MAR. 3 Interactive Children’s Concert MUSICAL MADNESS – 10 a.m. – Noon. Musical activities for children aged 2-8 includes an instrument “petting zoo,” music technology, crafts, a dance room, a percussion room. Hartwick students to perform an interactive concert at Noon. Anderson Center, 2nd floor, Hartwick College. Call 607-431-8543 or visit www.facebook.com/OneontaWorldofLearning/ FUNDRAISER – Noon – 2 p.m. p.m. Empty Bowls Luncheon features soup, bread, handmade bowl that you can keep, raffle. Benefits the Cooperstown Food Pantry. Cost,…
Empty Bowls Turnout Heading For A Record Showing off their acquisitions at today’s Empty Bowls Luncheon, a fundraiser for the Cooperstown Food Pantry, are, from left, Hany and Jill Ghaleb, Kate Kamker and Kaaren Fox. At of 1 p.m., 299 soup seekers had bought tickets (which gets each of them an original bowl and soup to fill it), already a record. In all, 350 bowls had been produced this year. At right, Cooperstown’s Amy Zoltick has an air of authority as…