WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JUNE 27-28, 2014 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM CYSA is target Car flips down ravine of FDLE probe Soccer group under scrutiny in recent years. By ROBERT BRIDGES
[email protected] The Columbia Youth Soccer Association is the subject of a criminal probe by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, an FDLE spokes- person confirmed Thursday. FDLE Communications Director Gretl Plessinger said the investigation was ongoing and declined further comment. CYSA has been at the center of controversy since it was revealed $52,000 went missing from the group’s accounts in 2010 and 2011. An independent financial review showed $52,688.20 in undocumented reimbursements between October 2010 and September 2011. A formal audit was not possible because numer- ous financial documents were missing, reviewers said. According to the review, former CYSA president Scott Everett reported that “most of the financial records and doc- PATRICK SCOTT/Special to the Reporter uments pertinent to a financial Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Cruz examines the scene of a rollover crash on State Road 47 Thursday morning. Joyce Ann Simpson, 67, of audit were destroyed and not High Springs was airlifted to UF Health Shands. available for audit due to vandal- ism at the organization’s facility.” At a September 2013 CYSA High Springs woman flown to Gainesville hospital board meeting, Everett said CYSA facilities had been bro- By EMILY STANTON St., was driving north at 11:20 a.m. near the overturned. It stopped facing north on its ken into twice in the three
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