HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC Radio)_ A Litchfield attorney is sentenced for embezzling almost $1-million from charity for military veterans and their families.
State Prosecutors arrested and charged Kevin Creed, 69, of Litchfield, on one count of larceny in the first degree. Between January 2015 and November 2018, prosecutors say he embezzled $1.4-million for personal purposes, even though the money was intended for the Fisher House Foundation and the Friends of Fisher House - Connecticut (FFH-CT. He is an attorney for FFH-CT, as run through his law firm in Bristol, The Creed Law Firm.
Due to a five-year statute of limitations, the state was limited to the amount of $985,000 in charging Creed.
In 2019, Creed was arrested by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Haven. He was charged with one count of wire fraud for diverting $1.4 million that was raised for FFH-CT from 2014 through 2018. Creed used that money for personal and business expenses. None of the money that was raised for FFH-CT from the time of the $1 million donation in 2015 until Creed’s arrest in 2019 was actually donated to FFH-CT or any other charity. He was sentenced to 42 months in prison.
Creed has received a state sentence of 20 months in prison, a sentence to run consecutively to the federal sentence of 42 months, for a total effective sentence of 62 months in prison.
The judge delayed the start of the state sentence until Creed surrenders to federal custody.
Creed is in state custody pending his transfer to federal prison authorities.
