I-Team: No Answers From Bride Suspected Of Using Needy Children Tax Dollars For Wedding Expenses
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2017
- By: Randy Travis
Aired: Jun 12 2017
NEWNAN, Ga. -The founder of a multi-county effort to feed hungry children each summer refuses to explain to the FOX 5 I-Team what happened to thousands of missing tax dollars.
April Smith-Scott already faces a criminal investigation.
State auditors found evidence some of that missing money was spent at a bridal store. April Smith got married last year. But frustrated state officials say she refused to offer any explanation.
Over and over again we asked April Smith-Scott and her husband Chris to clear up how more than $146,000 in tax money could wind up unaccounted for.
Over and over again neither Barnesville resident would offer a single answer as they walked to their car following a bankruptcy hearing.
State officials tell the FOX 5 I-Team they're getting the silent treatment, too.
Each summer, April Smith-Scott's non-profit, A.D. Smith Community Service, applied for thousands of tax dollars with the promise they would go to feed needy children. The summer food program is an important statewide effort that guarantees kids get at least one good meal each day when school is not in session.
But workers like Sherry Jones complained last year April Smith-Scott wasn't paying them. She's owed more than $5000.
"It's a very sad state of events that has happened," commented Ms. Jones after sitting through a creditors' meeting.
She was also one of April Smith's bridesmaids last year, an elaborate affair complete with a horsedrawn carriage, red carpet and 27 wedding cakes.
Ms. Jones says April Smith bought the wedding dress and bridesmaids' shoes from David's Bridal, the same place where state auditors discovered her non-profit spent $6151.
Then in May, 2017 -- one year after that big wedding -- April Smith-Scott and her husband filed for bankruptcy protection. Their total debts: $131,062.44, not to mention another $146,000 the state says she now owes taxpayers.
One of her many creditors is the Thomaston Milk Company. For six years owner Bobby Coe provided milk for April Smith's summer food program. Now she admits stiffing the small business out of $22,120.54 last year.
"We're going to get through ours," predicted Coe. "But when you take other people's money and you abuse it and you don't do it for the cause that it needs to be cause for, that's to me just being selfish to yourself."
"To me, it's stealing. You have stole her money," he continued, pointing to fellow creditor Sherry Jones. "And you have stole my money."
The state agency Bright from the Start agrees, asking Georgia's attorney general to start a criminal investigation.
Despite her troubles, April Smith-Scott has one thing down pat: her right to remain silent.
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The husband looks as guilty as she does because he knew what she was doing with their sorry selves. What grown adult would take out of the mouth of babies to pay for a tacky wedding???
They immigrants... 🤔
Apparently a lot
They should lock that bitch up and her husband , that money was met for the kids too get fed put her and her husband away for a year .
Facts!! 27 damn cakes and a peanut stand..smh
They did
THE KIDS MIGHT BE GOING HUNGRY, BUT APRIL CERTAINLY IS NOT !
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He'll nah brah!!! Legend has it she still eating the 27 cakes lol. That's a big bitch lol.
Lmao
LMAO THIS COMMENT HAD ME CRYING
She could share of that fat with the needy hungry kids and not just for herself 🤣😂
My husband and I have a nonprofit and EVERYTHING donated goes DIRECTLY to feeding and clothing people. We keep records on all that we spend, but have gotten criticized for always posting pictures. People say, "If you post pictures, it's for show." NO! We post pictures because of cases like this and we want to PROVE to people that we are actually doing what we SAY we are doing. We want to exemplify that INTEGRITY still exists.
I feel so bad for you. People like yourself who try to do right and provide a service have to overcome the negative press created by liars and thieves.
remember the BLM people who kept all the money?
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They are the same who wants proof and still get mad when they got it 😂
Never underestimate a person's ability to be evil.
Or her willingness.
Never underestimate how fat an arse can get....
Who needs 27 wedding cakes . Put her and her husband in jail
27 cakes were probably for the hungry kids. (SAID IN SARCASM)
Looks like she ate them all.
Well 26 of them were for her. 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂. 🐷
That's how you know shes 100% greedy
A Coke and Peanut stand too
It angers me when children do not get food. I donate money to my kids school for lunches to make sure that other children eat at least 2 good meals a day. I am so furious I can barely compose a sentence. These people should be in jail. Their home and cars should be put on auction to pay back all of this money. They stole from CHILDREN!
I agree
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They seem to be well fed though
Doesn't look like shes missed a meal.EVER!
Thank you for your generosity 😊
I am continuously amazed at what depths people can sink to
It's because they don't have any shame. They feel they've done nothing wrong cuz you can see they didn't speak to Randy Travis in the parking lot when they walk from the bankruptcy court to their automobile. Scum is scum in anyone's book. You look up the words come there is an arrow pointing right to this couple.
Funny I'm not surprised at all ... considering.
she ate the money, all 27 cakes, some of the kids, and the dignity she had left and the wedding outfit too.
Poor horse probably had to struggle to move that monstrous landmass of blubber.
What's even more disgusting is that how can a man be married to a heartless woman who spends money for a wedding that could have been used for needing children
needy*
And he's benefiting from it as well.
He's probably the same as her. Who do you think these people marry?
Because HE AIN'T NO GOOD EITHER.
That $134,000 thousand could have fed those kids good for a whole year and some. Breaks my to see greedy people. The Lord will judge them.
Easily if he's the same morally corrupt type person.
That was a long, uncomfortable walk to their car... and they couldn't make a run for it either...😝
Look at her, you think she's a person who runs?
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I'm sure ANY walking for her is uncomfortable.
She was walking like her feet hurt.
Awkward for sure
...and dont even ask who ate the 27 wedding cakes.. No police invertigation required on that matter..
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I wish I was in her position to show those kids the right way of doing things and truly helping them out and feeding them I would have loved to be in her position and she completely abused it hurts me
That wedding should have been a huge red flag for a women that works for a charity...come on ppl use your head!
Jonathan R. Right..
Jonathan R. Exactly!!!!!! And those employees who now wanna claim they didnt know what was going on are clowns....they knew what was going on!!! They jus dont want to be charged with her!!
Use your head...thats what R.Kelly been shouting
They didn't care. At least, not until they stopped getting paid. It wasn't until they reported not getting paid that an investigation was even started. If she would have paid the employees and small businesses then she'd prolly still be stealing today. Just imagine how many like her are operating right now under everybody's noses
truth
That poor horse on their wedding carriage...
I have to agree...not only was it stressful for the horse I also believe April has NEVER MISSED A MEAL!
Wish there was a chicken neck emoticon
A horse pulling a cow in a carriage, wow, now I've seen it all folks
@@Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐮🐮🐮🐮
@@Mr.T-BAGGIN-UR-MOM lol
Using money that belong to feeding children and keeping for yourself she needs to be held accountable
My heart goes out to the horse, that had to draw that carriage
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This is why I'm so sceptical of giving my money to these so called charities.
I don't. If I can't do it myself I'm not giving it!!!
Exactly
You should not give to any charity. Most of them are money laundering schemes that only give about 15% of the money raised to the actual cause.
Me too
@@NoahBodze Now u got me wondering if St.Jude is really legitimate
She ate all 27 cakes herself.
pvp64 👏🏼😆
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Beat me to it. Lol
pvp64 From the 👀 of things she ate all the other unaccounted for lunches as well.😮🙄
This comment explains so much LMAO
Man I love when people get caught in the act. Why is it so satisfying?
That there is justice in the world
The state needs to take everything that her and her husband owns
If you owe someone money, why would you invite them to your expensive wedding? Let alone make them a bridesmaid. Lol wtf
That woman ain't wrapped too tight either....
Not getting paid...
Butt
Being in her wedding...
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Why would the person want to be in their wedding period? If she old her money.. Crazy
She was that confident she wasn't going to get caught
Why would you want to b in her wedding....
Like you're someone special!!!
Psychopaths only have a right working for them---
She had 27 cakes...
And allll dah people sayin how beautiful.she was with her meat hanging out.
It was like a bunch of yes-ers beside Putin.
Wonder how many kids disappeared...that she swollowed.
Nothing will happen to her.
3 others have done dah same thing....
One had such as elaborate plan...even had ACTORS....to film fake scenarios.
Didn't even pay them!!!!!
That seems to be the norm.
Didn't pay for apartment...other things...
April Smith Scott which makes her initials A.S.S. Says alot!
Lock the slime ball away!
Right on...she's a Genuine A.S.S. She deserves prison time on bread water diet only.
#bestcomment!
Good eye!!
Ooh, damn, that A.S.S comment was cold but deserving 😂
This is very common for all nonprofit organizations and it is a fact that very little of the money goes to the cause and a whole lot of money goes to the pockets and if all nonprofits including churches or investigated 90% of them would be going to court for fraud
She couldn't run due to being obese. She eats well!!!
It’s common for non profits to spend only about 10% on the actually needs that the charity is for, most goes to paying staff but not for the staff to use for things like a wedding or season tickets.
you are thinking of televangelists on TV. They are not churches. I know many non profits that use the money donated to do a lot of good in communities here and abroad. I also know many non profits run by churches that account for every penny and are very good stewards of the money they receive.
I'm so sad for those children and people who gave.
The Bankruptcy WON'T stop the Criminal charges against her!
Salvatore Bianco Jr 👏🏼
No but she is protected from creditors. They should freeze all of her and her spouse and family members ( yep they are all accomplices, they knew she was stealing and did not say anything) bank accounts then sell homes and cars her wedding rings , jewelry etc.
@@luzbadillo8512 Thank you, 😁
Antonina MacNeish u sound stupid ..family members have nothing 2 do with it..only her and her fat ass husband
She probably ate the criminal charges and the indictments.... and the poor horse and carriage too.
Very difficult to hear of this happening and know that there are some children out there who in fact went hungry because of the actions of this Lady.
Lady?....Lady?....no this is a female.
DittoMike1 Hardly even a person for that matter.
Notice she and her husband haven't missed a meal.
@Mark Mann Mark, completely agreed!
Neil Anderson It is not a scam it is a fact!
I think at the end of every year every single charity organization should be audited so they can give account of every single dollar they are given... this way these kinds of things will not happen
Excellent. It doesn't take much to keep the problem from happening. I often wondered why only one person is in charge of the money. Why not two or three to keep an eye on things. This is why I do not donate to anyone anymore. Lock them up.
First thing they do is give themselves 6 figure paychecks.and hire their friends.
She definitely hasn't missed any meals lately tho🚌
Don't walk away, waddle away.
Mark Pedroza agreed 😆👍
Mark Pedroza Right!!
Mark Pedroza Love your comment! Lol
I know, she can't even walk with out waddlin
@@katherinehurt5238 I agree but you know what the sad part is. Too many people are just like her. Very fat and some morbidly obese! Today's generation of fast food eaters!
At least she got exposed to the public and family as to the type of evilness that runs through her veins
They will ust go back to Nigera
Throw her big ads in jail,and seize all assets of hers as well!! This is something that HAS TO be dealt with VERY harshly!!!
They two certainly never went without a meal
She not missing any meals herself-
It looks like April D. Smith spent $142,000 on fried chicken and Twinkies. She's the size of a Jeep Cherokee. Put this Jeep in prison for 10 years, for stealing from needy children.
Not a jeep 😭😂😂😂😂
Rússian labor camp
Not american country club prison...
If she did this I hope that the government seizes all of her property and she’s made to pay back every single penny that she stole in addition to doing jail time. Stealing from children in need if food 🤦♀️
Word on the street says that April Smith-Scott invested a lot of the money heavily in to go orders of Popeyes Chicken family packs!! 🐔
She was repeatedly heard saying, "Love that chicken from Popeyes!!" 🎶
Complete and total "walk of shame".
The longest walk she had in years.
Was more like a waddle of ignorance. Her big ass doesn't give two fucks about what she did and she knows she will never see any jail time ffs sad
Wabble of shame!
Bankruptcy should not apply to any federal/state funds due. Period.
Good job on exposing this type of people. They should be shame all over the media.
I think she was trying to portray herself as a wealthy socialite who desperately wants to be a cast member on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."
It feels like she exploited children to steal from others. That's sad.
No matter how much money that heiffer stole for that wedding there's no way she was a beautiful bride! Ewww......
That's why I'm so afraid to give to charity, because of people like this. Sickening.
Woe!! This makes one speechless !! That's real bold and despicable. Very shameful, especially in the social climate America is in. To open such an establishment for low-income children and instead use donated funds to make yourself feel middle class for a few weeks. Uhh. Sad for the kids and people who DID their jobs and were denied payment and food.
No really!? A woman like that robbed from the charity? I am shocked!😂😂
TSNS!!!
Suppliers need to get advances paid up front unless they know the client
Haya Glamazon She was probably using new DBA’s for each of them.
@@Astinsan That's also a good idea. I pay all my suppliers on time
What kind of husband would support a wife that would fleece the community and children? Hungry children!
He was in on it.
She's disgusting!! Children are hungry and she has an enormous
wedding with 27 cakes??? I think she ate all of them!??
She can't hide behind bankruptcy
She should be in jail saying back everyone she stole from!!! Creep!!!
She fed 8 children really well, then she ate them! Let's see how long this new hubby sticks around, now that the funds are gone,. It's funny how money give some people blinders, now his eyes are clearing up, waking up to that beast sobered up.. like dayyyaaaam!
Oh she’s going to jail. Her simp will move on. He won’t care that his credit is ruined. Since they weren’t married when she stole the money they won’t be able to charge him unless they can prove somehow he spent the money directly. He will find himself another biggun with money. Who loses out? Those poor kids. I remember growing up and my school provided me a great breakfast and lunch. Sometimes we had to get pantry food and yes we got that brick of cheese and even a brick of government ham. But my school always gave us great breakfast and lunches. We always got there to get breakfast so we had the two meals. I know what those poor kids think and feel. I hope the woman that stole the money that fed them goes to prison for a long time.
I hope she hears crying hungry children 24/7. I am appalled at her lack of conscience and integrity. There is no excuse for her behavior. I hope they throw her in prison for an extremely long time. I'm not usually vindictive but this was so outrageous, how could anyone??? LOCK HER UP.
And feed her JUST ONCE A DAY .....
@@barbusie5217 Stale bread water only... might make her realize her crime.
So much for the blacks giving back to their community!!
This is heartbreaking
I feel sorry for the heels on those shoes...
She doesn't look like she has gone hungry very often.
What goes around comes around! I give the marriage 1 year!!
Yup!
Absolutely shameful. Children must be our priority, always.
Every time they think of their wedding day I hope they remember this and its a lesson learned for them.
I think if she would've used some of that money to get lipo for the wedding, she would've gotten a slap on the hand. Such a shame to steal money and not use it for personal improvement.
LMAO 😂 😂
Ha ha you are a Hooligan 😊
Obviously she thinks she big
And beautiful
A perfect package...
Boy oh Boy that crook seemed to play it smart here's how: Embezzle the money, spend every penny, THEN when your broke file for bankruptcy! So your somewhat safe from criminal prosecution. Then the crook doesn't even feed poor & hungry kids. Heffa!
Nah she won't be safe from criminal prosecution. Shes safe from the creditors sueing her but she isnt safe from the state. She cant add them to the bankruptcy because they didnt give money to her they gave it to her charity.
And yet I was almost arrested and put in jail because I didnt go to jury duty.
Of course
Think of stealing a pack of hot dog rolls...
You'll go to the big boys jail...
I just watched I clip about this and was dumbfounded when they said they had to wait till the civil suits where done before chargng her criminally! She should of been arrested immediately! What a disgrace! Who has 27 wedding cakes! But guess it's easy to spend someone else's money!
Her and her husbands bank accounts etc should be seized
She is just a total thief
Jail long term for both because hubby will be fully aware of what has gone on
Everything they both have should be sequestered .
She will explain to the ALMIGHTY GOD!!! You don't mistreat the babies!!!!
She Filed Bankruptcy Because She Knew She Wouldn't Have To Pay Back The Stolen Money, But Prison Is Still A Likely Possibility, Roguish Wrench🤬
April had a lavish wedding off the backs of hungry children ! The DA should impose the maximum punishment on her !
Lavish? Maybe if you are…like them.
@@donkeydarko77 : What exactly do you mean ?
@@robertdemitro1520 Criminals.
I can't help but wonder how her new husband feels about all of this. Surely, he must have known she didn't personally have that kind of money to spend on her wedding. I'm guessing she figured she wouldn't be found out. Now, she can't return to her home since the truth has come out. She can't hide forever. She will find herself in prison considering she isn't showing up for court or paying back the money on the payment plan. She's just making matters worse.
27 wedding cakes???? Just a tought of that gave me diabetes!!!!
Utterly ridiculous and disgusting of her!!
What she did will only help the general public become more skeptical in giving to noble, worthy charities.
BTW, like someone else stated earlier, her initials are ASS.
How can you be so stupid to use that money in a traceable way like that?!
i guess some men will marry anything for a few dollars
I doubt he got any money. She spent it on the wedding!!
Bet he wishes he had that "I DO" back!!
Hope she gets 20 years
Freddy Future agreed that way she can lose 20 pounds every year before she gets out.....and she still will be “that’s huge bitch”!
More like 27 years Freddy for every one of those cakes she ate by herself ... shameful
Take everything they own except the clothes only their back and that's it!
Take their home, all cars, all jewelry even their wedding rings!
Did she eat all those wedding cakes herself? Holy cow!
I dont get it . Why take the money when you know you gonna get audited by the state.
Stand Mccray stupid people dont realize that.
Because animals don't have the ability to think about tomorrow. .or who they're stealing from..they don't care..
I have a feeling she’s never felt the feeling of hunger. Especially not in 50 years.
The story says they filed for bankruptcy! Meaning he knew exactly what was going on with the money! If he didn't he would have already threw her under the bus🤔
Throwing it under the bus would have totaled out a perfectly good bus!!!!
There’s way too much of this kind of thing going on out there.
Just shameful
This is SAD
I can look at her and question her financial intelligence. How do you get overdraft fees getting so much that isnt yours to begin with..she should be investigated for tax fraud as well.
And she's just one of many...
That's a damn shame
The photo of her being fitted with the wedding dress is inappropriate given her hulk and bulk she should be getting fitted for a pro football team
Where is the Attorney General. It's been 1 and 1/2 years since the report.
This issue dropped off the face of the earth. The State of Georgia quietly hoped the mess would go away and it did. She got away with it. Good Job Georgia!!
So nothing happened? How did you find out?
Thanks for the followup - one of my biggest complaints about the media posting on youtube is there is the initial findings without any type of follow up story.
Damn wilderbeast
Fraud cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. They really need to step up the civil lawsuits and criminal fraud lawsuits against her.
This wasn't simple error in judgment. This is about a serious flaw in her character. Then to add injury to insult we learned she was providing inadequate, unhealthy food to those poor children. Why are people allowed so much room to achieve this type of abuse of funds?? Why wasn't her spending checked every 3 months or fiscally? She spent lavishly on her desires and needs...and was indifferent towards these children. Her arrogance. Smh
put them in Jail!
I bet they got money stashed. Horrible woman her man was in on it too.
I love the reporters and journalist bravo work 👌🏽
Her husband fell in love with her because of her dimples. He should see how cute they are when they are on a woman's face!
She looks like she ate all 27 cakes.
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I feel sorry for that wedding dress. Bet burning it wouldn't get rid of the sweat stains 🤢
She better get use to people opening and closing doors for her where she's going. 😉
I would never open a door for her if I recognized her on the street.
U can tell she has never ever missed a meal she eats 7 meals a day I'm sure
She's got that "I'm really fat" waddle.
How the hell can she file for bankruptcy with this over her head.. fk that... take everything she owns ... the care the house eberything... smdh
April Smith, now April Smith-Scott, owes a lot of people a lot of money. According to court records, $26,353 in back rent for her Barnesville home. According to her recently filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition, $22,120.54 to the Thomaston Milk Company that provided milk for the summer food program.
That's not all. There's $22,169.96 to Ingles, $15,839.20 to Global Foods, even $1,505.06 to the Middle Georgia Community Food Bank.
Total amount April and her husband admit owing creditors: $131,062.44.
Did they get off paying it
@@HackerActivist Humph, nope.
@@tyrese3745 good.
OMG!! i would kill myself before i would ever be that fat and be caught stealing thousands from FOOD companies!
You can bet she has grifted all her life. And those in wedding party for example had to have wondered how she became a sudden millionaire to have such an extravagant wedding. Doubt staff complained until they weren't getting paid..she got too greedy.
Look at that Heifer waddle back to her car. 😅🐮
Aside from the obvious theft of money intended to feed children, there's a more important issue that needs to be addressed. Simply stated, why are tax dollars going to pay to feed someone's kids? If a parent doesn't have the capability to feed their children, they shouldn't have them. Period. The government should NEVER assume the role of a parent.
You must keep in mind of the type of people they're talkin about that can't afford to feed their children. low-level trailer park project people low minded people low self-esteem blamed everything on the government type of ppl.
What
Look f all that we talking about helping kids eat not that they should not been born every child is a blessing