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The Introduction

Late Spring 2025

  • The Treasurer, Angela Sablich, is made aware of missing receipts for multiple purchases while performing routine duties as a Director.

  • Financial discrepancies/irregularities include not only missing itemized receipts, but also multiple purchases not authorized.  These unauthorized purchases range from cash gift cards to personal items, all of which are prohibited at local, State, and Federal levels.

  • The Treasurer requests the missing receipts from the General Manager multiple times verbally to no avail; a formal request via email is then made to the GM with all other Directors being made aware.

  • The Accountant is notified of the financial discrepancies, and emphasizes the importance of rectifying the situation.

  • The summer election results in two new Directors being sworn in and a reshuffling of the Executive Board, removing the Treasurer who was trying to remedy the discrepancies.  The two new Directors are made aware of the financial situation.

The Incident

September 8, 2025

  • By order of the new POA President, Joan Elliot, the Directors are denied access to the office – a violation of Bylaws 2001 Article VII, Section E, (3) – which leads to a happenstance meeting of a couple of Directors in the Teepee Library.  The General Manager arrives shortly thereafter, unprompted.

  • When once again asked to produce the itemized receipts that would reconcile the accounts, the GM proceeds to becomes irate/erratic, lashes out at the Directors, and calls security, before retreating to her office.  

  • The GM then closes the Teepee for the afternoon, notifying the Community via email.  

  • In the following days:

    • An NDA appears, likely signed under duress, requiring a Director to resign. 

    • ​An employee was terminated, after being falsely accused of conspiracy.

    • The remaining Directors were told by the community attorney that it would “behoove” them to give the GM a five figure “bonus for not suing the community”.  The GM was later awarded said bonus.

  • The monthly Board of Directors Meeting is rescheduled so the attorney could be present. 

  • The Community is made aware of the NDA.  We are told a Director resigned, but we are not told the details - the Director is supposedly barred from participating in monthly meetings despite being a property owner in good standing.

  • An additional Director (former Treasurer) resigns, citing the inability to perform fiduciary duties, seemingly at odds with the new Executive Directors.

  • All Directors are aware of the growing severity of the ongoing financial debacle, and will either become part of the problem or part of the solution.

The Aftermath

Fall 2025 - Summer 2026

  • Property owners start asking about the missing receipts/unauthorized purchases after obtaining several months worth of financials.  This goes on at every monthly meeting for nearly a year.

  • The financials (among other documents) are to be made available to any member in good standing as per Article VII, E, (1), as well as in accordance with other State and Federal laws.

  • The community lawyer repeatedly tells the new Treasurer, Ron Woytowich, via Zoom not to talk about the financial discrepances during a monthly meeting, which he promptly ignores.  The new Treasurer’s justification for any discrepancies is that “the credit card was compromised at a gas station."  It is worth noting that a number of company credit cards have been “compromised” while in the GM’s possession.

  • With no answers being given to the membership, and the Directors still barred from the office, one of the Directors issues a letter to the fellow Directors at a monthly meeting in front of the membership, asking for the same information that the property owners have been asking for.  This anomaly, in combination with the previous repeated requests, should be more than sufficient to alert the two new Directors (who have now been appointed due to the two resignations) that something is amiss. 

  • Some of the Directors are determined to defend the GM with community dollars if it should come to that.  They insist on handling things “in house”, rather than pursuing proper action.

  • The President steps down from the Executive board, but remains a director, and the Executive Board reshuffles again.

  • The GM is terminated with some Directors advocating for a severance – full well knowing what happened – while others are against it.

  • Some of the Directors become aware that the Pennsylvania State Police have been informed of the financial discrepancies.

  • Saturday, June 6th, the Pennsylvania State Police are at the Teepee.

  • Monday, June 8th, the previous President, Joan, who recently stepped down from the Executive Board, resigns as a Director.

  • Tuesday, June 9th, the Treasurer, Ron, resigns.  After suing the community to serve on the board he does not complete his term.

  • Saturday, June 13th, at the annual meeting the accountant is pulled away from sight just before the meeting begins, and then significantly edits her notes upon returning to her seat.  She speaks briefly about the financials and informs the membership that the 2025 books can not be closed due to “significant financial discrepancies”.  She repeatedly refers to an investigation as well as an audit.  A property owner asks about a time line of the audit; she clarifies that it will take several months to audit the books and understand the toll of the damage.  She also notes that she is limited in her response as she does not want to “interfere with the ongoing State Police investigation”.

  • At the annual meeting, President Joe Laschenski talks about transparency with respect to leadership and later releases a statement on Facebook:

    • "There is no investigation with the state police against current or former board members..."​

  • At the July meeting, Vice President John Douglas affirms his commitment to Towamensing and tells the property owners, "...our primary responsibility is the fiduciary responsibility to every homeowner in this community..."

  • A property owner then presses the Board on the subject of the Pennsylvania State Police investigation asking, "Is there a State Police investigation, ongoing, looking into the alleged fraudulent purchases, thousands of dollars in purchases, with company/community credit cards?"​​

  • John Douglas admits, "I can tell you that there is an investigation…"

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