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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release in Harrisburg today from Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday’s office, Sunday announced that the former director of a southwestern Pennsylvania youth football league is charged with diverting nearly a quarter-of-a-million dollars in league assets to personal accounts. Fifty-seven-year-old William Spencer was the director of the Washington/Greene Youth Football League, now known as the Western Pennsylvania Youth Football League (WPYFL), from 2013 until he resigned in March of 2025. Spencer diverted league funds to his accounts to bolster a retirement account, fund credit cards and make various purchases at Amazon, restaurants, and other retailers during that time. Spencer is not in custody, but the Office of Attorney General’s Financial Crimes Section charged him this week with felony and misdemeanor counts of theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property, and two misdemeanor counts of misapplication of entrusted property. Spencer fraudulently wrote 187 checks payable to himself in total from WPYFL’s accounts, which totaled about $230,000, from January 4th, 2020, through February 18th, 2025. Spencer also made direct payments totaling over $3,000 from WPYFL’s accounts to accounts in his and/or his wife’s name, without the knowledge or consent of WPYFL.