Ex-Home& School aide admits theft

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, May, 2009 | by MENSAH M. DEAN deanm@phillynews.com 215-854-5949

Greg Wade, who once held school officials accountable as the head of the city's largest parents' group, held himself accountable in court yesterday.

The disgraced ex-president of the Philadelphia Home and School Council pleaded guilty to four counts of felony theft and agreed to pay a minimum of $115,000 in restitution to his victims, said Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Liermann.

"It's a travesty that someone put in this position of trust would do something like this to our kids and the city, given the dire financial straits that many of these children are in, as well as the financial crisis we are all in," Liermann said.

Wade, of Dora Drive near Chalfont, in the Northeast, faces up to 28 years in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 17, his 54th birthday,...