William Aramony
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William Aramony (born 1927) was a U.S. administrator. He served as the president of the United Way between 1970 and 1992
He resigned from his position as President on 28 February 1992 after irregularities surfaced in his spending and management practices.
Aramony was convicted in 1995 on 25 counts including conspiracy to defraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, transportation of fraudulently acquired property, engaging in monetary transactions in unlawful activity, filing false tax returns and aiding in the filing of false tax returns.
District Judge Claude Hilton gave Aramony all but one of the eight years he faced under federal sentencing guidelines. He also was required to serve three years of probation and was ordered to repay $552,000 in misused funds.
During the three-week trial, prosecutors portrayed Aramony as a corrupt womanizer who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of the charity's money to finance flings with young women, including receiving oral sex in the back of limousines he had rented with the charity's funds. He also went on trips to Egypt, London, Paris and Las Vegas, among other places.
The amount Aramony defrauded United Way was estimated to be US$1.2 million, taking into account such things as untraced trips and gifts.
Aramony spent seven years in Federal Prison Camp at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
