William J Aramony was CEO of United Way of America for more than twenty years.
25 Facts About William Aramony
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William Aramony helped build United Way into the largest charitable organization in the United States.
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William Aramony retired in 1992 amid a scandal that led to criminal charges of fraud and financial mismanagement, for which he was convicted in 1995 and sentenced to prison.
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William Aramony grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated from Clark University in 1949 and matriculated at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, where in 1951 he earned a master's degree.
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William Aramony was assigned to a Texas military hospital from 1951 to 1953 as a lieutenant.
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William Aramony began in 1954 as a staff planner for the South Bend, Indiana Community Chest.
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William Aramony was hired as CEO of the national governing body, the United Community Funds and Council of America in 1970.
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William Aramony began an organizational makeover and the group was renamed, United Way of America, and moved from New York City to Alexandria, Virginia in 1971.
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William Aramony helped develop a core strategy, which emphasizes an annual community-wide campaign in the Fall.
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William Aramony was awarded the Silver Buffalo Award in 1988 by the National council of the Boy Scouts of America.
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When William Aramony was questioned about the allegations, he denied any wrongdoing.
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Late that year, a source at the national office revealed that William Aramony flew first class, sometimes on the Concorde, used chauffeur-driven town cars and alleged that he had lavished expensive gifts on friends.
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Later that year, Aramony was charged, along with CFO Thomas J Merlo and Partnership Umbrella President Stephen J Paulachak, in a 53-count Federal indictment charging that they had defrauded their organization of $1.2 million.
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William Aramony got her a job at UWA and their affair began in July 1986.
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William Aramony was unsure what to do with her life, so she accepted her older sister's invitation to move to Alexandria, Virginia and share an apartment.
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William Aramony arranged for a UWA subsidiary to purchase an expensive New York City condominium and furnished it lavishly with $459,000 Partnership Umbrella dollars.
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William Aramony claimed that it was a better deal for UWA than the apartment that had been rented for almost 20 years.
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William Aramony was alleged to have siphoned thousands of charity dollars through Partnership Umbrella to spend on fancy meals, trips and gifts, to keep Villasor as his mistress.
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William Aramony flew Villasor and her younger sister LuAnn to Las Vegas as a graduation gift for LuAnn.
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William Aramony purchased half ownership of a race horse, Stylish Affair, in her name and was alleged to have spent $125,576.92 to purchase a Florida condominium for her use until her retirement in May 1991.
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William Aramony allegedly used $10,000 of United Way funds to furnish the condominium.
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William Aramony was released from prison on September 28,2001 after six years of incarceration and was on probation for three additional years.
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William Aramony appealed his convictions and sentences; nearly all of his appeals were denied.
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William Aramony died in late 2011 at his son's Arlington, Virginia home.
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The cause of William Aramony's death was bone cancer, which developed following prostate cancer in the early 1990s.