KANSAS CITY – A former Kansas City police officer who ran an anti-crime charity has been found guilty of stealing from that charity.
Aaron Wayne McKie was convicted in federal court of nine counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering for spending more than 200-thousand dollars in charity donations on himself.
The 24-year veteran of the KCPD, McKie served as president of a non-profit named Mid-America Crime Free, purportedly providing anti-crime training in the rental housing industry.
Prosecutors argued he ran a scheme to defraud the non-profit beginning in 2009. The biggest fundraiser for the non-profit was the annual Fairways 4 Fuzz Golf Tournament. Donations were sold as going to landlord and police training.
Prosecutors say that was false. Instead, he spent $200,000 on travel, bars, food, household, paying taxes and more. McKie is now facing up to 20-years with no parole for each of the ten counts when he is sentenced.