The former CEO of a Greenwood, South Carolina newspaper has pleaded guilty to stealing $17,000 from the paper.
The Index-Journal reports former Index-Journal CEO Ed Gunderson pleaded guilty Monday to breach of trust and was sentenced to five years of probation.
The 62-year-old Gunderson, who was fired in August of 2017, was also ordered to pay the paper back the $17,000.
The newspaper began selling digital marketing services through a third-party vendor in 2016, and Gunderson hired his then-wife, Melissa, as a contractor to help sell the service. Greenwood police say contractor payments that were supposed to go to the newspaper instead were funneled to another company run by Gunderson.
